Polaris Station

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Counting had never helped. At least, it has never brought sleep to him as often advertised.

He wondered if it ever worked, counting numbers to fall asleep, or any such thing people say you could do to fall asleep. What seemed truer than any of those counting suggestions was that if you can’t fall asleep, then you can’t.

It is what it is.

He folded his thick hands on the rise of his chest. Counting never worked, concluded Tom Garcia, sheriff of the small community of Baker County. He had been through a rough day at the office that day, true. A rough day which included proofreading the typed reports by 60-year-old Elma, his secretary. And then making a run down to the magistrate court a total of six times to take those he arrested — four misdemeanor offenders and one miscreant who now languishes in cell 2 down at the station, the other four being held in the other cells in the basement.

Garcia commenced counting again.

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