Flash Bang by Paul Lees-Haley

I was fired after I robbed Metro Computer Company but the cops busted me for the wrong crime. I stole electronics from the warehouse, not the contents of the boss’s safe.

Fortunately, the evidence was weak, so I copped a plea and hit the streets in time served plus twenty days. The jails are crowded around here.

Anyway, that’s how I ended up working in this crumby Kwik & E-Z convenience store, which is way beneath my intelligence and qualifications. The owner banned guns from the store based on his theory that “robbed is cheaper than sued.” But he never said anything about flash bangs, and I had one that was state of the art, compliments of a law enforcement research technician I’d helped out with his computer desperation moments. I loved the irony of a crook using the cop’s technology to commit a crime.