Something had gone horribly wrong. It was an amateur bank robbery. He had handled these before. The clerk pushes the button. He shows up. The robber gets scared and eventually gives up. That’s not what happened today. He showed up, like always, but the robber was not scared. It was as if the robber had [...]
Archive for July, 2006
18 Jul
Angel of Death 2
He stood over a sink with tears running down the sides of his face. In one hand, he held a razor. On the wrist of the other was a dotted line marking out, with careful precision, the exact path of an artery in his arm.
She stood nearby. She was unable to keep her eyes on [...]
16 Jul
Angel of Death
It was just after midnight when she crept through the quiet house into the bedroom where a man and his wife were sleeping. She looked closely at the man, her first client of the day. He was only fifty and in good heath, but what he didn’t know, as he lay there sleeping quietly with [...]
