Bottleneck
Excerpt:
I watched the flies bang against their mesh prison for a few moments. I don’t usually empathize with insects but I identified with their frustration. Prisons are all around us, often nestled one inside the other, like the fly colony, inside the locked lab, inside a concrete and glass office park carved from landfill and marshland, inside a society that rewards us with scraps for following the rules day after day. Read the full story at ForensicFieldGuide.substack.com.