He knew his time was up, the infamous Castle Killer was about to caught red-handed by the most incompetent man he’d ever met. Stumbling onto his latest scene by sheer chance.
That’s what happens when you end up a little off script he thought, as he laid her out in his ritual way. She was a spontaneous addition to his collection and it was now that he reminded himself that certain urges should never be rushed into. He saw the torchlight, quickly packed the remainder of his things and hid them best he could. Then a thought formed…
“Help!”
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As part of the AtoZ challenge I am writing flash fiction of no more than 100 words. Today’s prompt was…
Red-handed
You can catch up with my other entries for this year’s A to Z here.
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Nice twist, Raven! These short stories are so clever, particularly given the limited word length.
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Haha thanks, as we get closer to the end my little brain sometimes struggles but I’ve been lucky so far 🙂
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A risky move. Even an incompetent detective will suspect something! 🙂
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A risk that probably wont pay off but trying something is better than trying nothing 🙂
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I hope he gets caught! Great murders are fun to read about, but I like the good guys to figure things out in the end! Fun story!
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Thanks, well it was looking like a pretty hopeless situation so I think it was a last ditch attempt 🙂
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