Sunday, April 27, 2014

RoB: Short list?

Sharon Chiron couldn't sleep and kept looking at her bedside clock. 2:28 am; 3:01 am ; 3:17 am. Exasperated,she finally got up and went to the small kitchen. The extended stay hotel served her purposes well, but she felt some paranoia, and her insomnia was a side effect. She reached for the goat cheese to spread on some rosemary crackers, and poured herself a small glass of milk. As she ate, she thought of the men she had killed, not with remorse, but as a short list in her mind of related people who may be trying to kill her. Her dead husband has no relatives, and neither does she. Check. Her first kill with the quartet was Trey Pyrrhus,pedophile. Maybe someone had seen the group the night of his murder- to be investigated.Second kill was Robert Sexton, who had bilked his female prey out of millions. The Sangue situation will need to be revisited. Third hit was the young teenager Len Atila, baby killer. Did the motel's night manager or a motel guest see something? The latest murder for the quartet was Evelynn's perverted, rapist brother Garrett, although he is officially only " missing." We did her a favor, didn't we? Could Evelynn want Sharon dead? And then there's Jillian, the mastermind, so to speak...what about her? and neither Sharon nor any of the defunct quartet had met Jill's staff...Finally....Pauline.... her only friend left alive. Could she be the betrayer? Sharon grimaced and wondered whether Pauline was also pondering these same disturbing questions. Sharon was wide awake and decided to read more of Dante's "Inferno" ,which she had begun when she started her exile, until she would hopefully get drowsy. "It milks the tears that boiling brook unlocks." She loved all the punishments and contemplated in what ring she would be located."The stream of blood, where those who injure others,boil....the bloodred, boiling ditch's banks, beside the piercing cries of those that boiled...." She momentarily forgot about her dangerous predicament and smiled.

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