Status Updates From Snapshot

That story was hard to keep believing, some days. Other days it walked up, slapped you in the face, and said, "You going to do something about this or not?"

People became cops for a myriad of reasons. For some it was expected—it was a family thing, or just seen as good work for a blue-collar person. Others, they liked the power...
But deep down, there was something in all of them. Something about wanting to fix the world. …there was a story you told yourself.
That you were doing something good, something right.

Has a dupe of me ever seen one of those? he wondered. Thinking he was the real me, completely ignorant of the fact that he— and his entire world—was just a Snap-shot. Until he saw the badge...