The Wicked

by James Newman

Several days later, after the mass funeral that saw Morganville citizens shed more tears in a single afternoon than they ever thought possible, Chief Simms and a couple professionals called in from the state capital determined that The Great Fire of ‘02 was no accident. Someone had caused all that death, all that destruction, on purpose. They caught him, eventually. The arsonist’s name was Robert John Briggs. He was seventeen years old, a dropout from West Morganville High.