Fiction
A Lesson in Murder
A random word drabble
Today’s random word is teach.
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WARNING: Blood
They’d found four bodies in the garage and two in the freezer. All were male.
Each had a punctured artery. Blood was all over the crime scenes; every one had blood scrawled on a wall or mirror:
That’ll teach him.
It had taken meticulous detective work to discover that every victim had dated the same woman at some point in their history. She was creative with names and appearances. Her real name was plain enough. Soon, it would be in all the headlines.
She glared at DS Glyn King, who was interviewing her, and hissed,
“I’ll teach you a lesson.”
This Drabble (a story of exactly 100 words) is written in response to this prompt from Nancy Oglesby:
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