“How glorious,” Beatrice Kramer crooned as her stiletto heels ticked over the grey marble floors of the courthouse lobby. “Such wonderfully good fortune that the new law went into effect at midnight, only an hour before my rape.” Her eye socket twitched and a tear rolled over a fading scar on her high cheekbone. She swiped the salty drop away with a clean, white handkerchief that remained a fixture to her palm. Her left eye watered without emotion as a consequence of damage that the doctor sa...

“How glorious,” Beatrice Kramer crooned as her stiletto heels ticked over the grey marble floors of the courthouse lobby. “Such wonderfully good fortune that new law went into effect at midnight, only an hour before my rape.” Her eye socket twitched and a tear rolled over a fading scar on her high cheekbone. She swiped the salty drop away with a clean, white handkerchief that remained a fixture to her palm. Her left eye watered without emotion as a consequence of damage that the doctor said w...