Monday, April 22, 2024

Donny's Motive: A Detective Monologue

 DONNY’S MOTIVE

A Detective Monologue

Henry N. Silva


Why does a private investigator do what they do?


To help bring justice to those who deserve it? Sure.


But there’s gotta be something more to it for every P.I., right?


Why do I do it? I don’t really know, to be honest.


I guess I like getting offers from all over the country, or even the world. Sometimes I’m in some rustbelt town in the midwest. Sometimes on a west-coast beach, or an east-coast suburb. Sometimes I’m at some highway stop out in the desert, even. I got called all the way to Italy once too, believe it or not!


Nothing that a fed couldn’t really do, though… I coulda been a fed instead. But then I’d have to work with others, and with all the literal and figurative backstabbing I’ve seen, that’s the last thing I wanna do…


That’s the price of working as many cases as I have, I guess…


-Donny Forest, P.I.


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