The 1st of a three volume collection of amazing stories.
Each volume of Tales of Crime and Violence contains a varied array of stories, emotional and psychologicaly intense.
Are they the perpetrators or are they simply the victims?
Have they been forced or coerced, or did they instigate the situation?
These stories ask questions of you, the reader. Can you answer them, honestly, truely, to yourself or will you have nagging doubts lingering within your mind?
Excerpt
I shall never forget that sound.
I do not mean the gunshot, but the sound that followed it.
A combination of a pop and a crack, like splitting a coconut with a sledgehammer, which I suppose it was in a way.
Then there was the smell.
That rich iron scent of fresh blood mixed with the drifting aroma of cordite.
As I looked at that mess of blood, brain and bone splattered over the wall, combined with those odours wafting on the light breeze coming into the room through the open window, I could not help but recall the words ‘I love the smell of Napalm in the morning’.
I have no idea why it was that particular phrase that echoed within my mind, but it did.
This was the first time I have seen somebody blow their own brains out.
As I stood there, transfixed at witnessing such a macabre scene, each stage began to replay itself in my head, it was like a slow-motion playback.
The way he had slammed the phone down. The casual way he lit the cigarette, tossing the lighter onto the desk and picking up that gun in one seamless, smooth movement. Lifting the pistol to his temple and... bang.
That was it.
He was dead.
There was not a hint of hesitation, not a single millisecond of indecision.
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