Fics like the stone inside you still hasn't hit bottom

Shrue had built their platform on being a model member of the community, a local, a “family man.” But the more they invested in their work, the further that image seemed to be from the truth, and no number of reiterations to the press that they’d “grown up around the water” could detract from how far downstream the currents had carried them. The prestige of their position and the duties that came with it had spilled out over their world like an oil slick; a glimmering fetid iridescence that choked out all life beneath the surface. Of course, this was all assuming they even had a family. [Yet another character study of my favourite politician, focusing on their complacency, alcoholism and of course their Shruedinger's family.]

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