Edward Bellamy 
Two Days’ Solitary Imprisonment 

What if you were wrongfully accused of a crime, and your growing anxiety about the mix-up served only to make your accusers more certain of your guilt? That’s the fate that befalls the unlucky protagonist of Edward Bellamy’s Kafkaesque short story "Two Days’ Solitary Imprisonment, " whose recurring dreams of being unjustly persecuted finally come to pass in real life.