Water Torture
by Dean Foret
The city's coroner summons "Regina Colwell, a young provincial legislator, to a shabby hotel where a young constituent, Norman Water, has been found dead, drowned in his bathtub. Colwell has never met the boy but, for some reason. he had inked her name and phone number on his hand,. Even stranger, long columns of washed-out numbers, like hieroglyphics, covered the walls of his room.