Wrote the appeal brief I keep telling myself I'd start

Three pages today, not the forty I owe. It's the part where I have to argue that the evidence the state called 'corroborating' was just repetition dressed up as proof. There's a particular quiet in the office at this hour — the coffee maker clicks off and you can hear the building settle. I don't know if it'll win. But naming the exact way a fact got bent is its own kind of work.