Paul Perilli
Paul Perilli lives in Brooklyn, NY. His recent short fiction appears or is forthcoming in Overland, Fairlight Books, Jerry Jazz Musician, L'Esprit Literary Review, Aethlon, Fabula Argentea, The Brussels Review, and others. His story "Have a Nice Day" recently won Adelaide Literary Magazine's 2024 short story contest. His website is: https://paulperilli.com. Paul recommends Democracy Docket.
Others, as Ms. Wilson stated, considered it part of the story they wanted to tell for whatever their reasons were. To reveal the truth. To cleanse the past. To exact revenge. I don’t ask for a motive.
The clash between the protesters and police. The police using pepper spray to keep them back, grabbing and zip-tying those refusing to move. The swarm of bikers turning off the road, some onto the side streets, others onto the bike lane that went back over the river to Brooklyn.
