The following is a work of fiction.
X-ing Off Names
I hid in the parking garage behind a car. Waiting. I had to make sure the job was done before I moved on to the next.
A guy's gotta eat... and have a nice car... and a nice house filled with nice things. Let's not forget the hot girlfriends. Can't ask for much more in life. Except that I get the job done. I always get the job done.
I heard footsteps echoing through the garage, keys jingling. A tall curvaceous woman with a tight suit unlocked her car. False alarm. I was disappointed. I was ready to be done with this. I watched the woman pull her car out of the garage.
Not a second too soon I saw my mark. She was certainly a knock out. I'd seen her before, but I rarely looked closely at any hit. She was the kind of woman that I liked to keep at my house. Too bad. I smiled to myself.
I made my way into the open. I approached her. She looked curious and even a little scared. I liked it when they looked scared. "Mrs. Murphy?"
"For the moment. Who are you?"
"Let me show you." I smiled wide knowing the fear that was about to overtake her. I pulled out my gun, and pointed it at her face. She sneered at me. Wait, What?
"Go ahead then." She smiled at me, and I wondered where the flicker of fear had gone when I first approached her. I had to ask.
"Why aren't you afraid?"
"Being afraid makes no difference. Besides it's you who should fear me."
I grinned wide, showing my teeth.
"Tell you what," she continued. "Let me go and this won't be your last hit. Kill me and lose everything. I know who you are. I know who you work for, and I have provisions in place that will ensure that if I don't show up for my appointments tomorrow you will be turned in to the police."
I had had enough. This game was boring me , and I didn't appreciate being threatened. I pulled the trigger and shot her in the head. She crumpled on the ground. I gave her a kick before I slipped quickly and quietly out of the garage.
She'd known what she was doing. She planted a seed of fear into me. She deprived me of the pleasure of X-ing off names. For next few weeks at least.
The End
9 comments:
Cold blooded. That's a good story that makes us want more. She must have been bluffing and he called it.
Lee
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Well that was unexpected! I agree with Arlee - cold blooded! :)
A good story, I enjoyed reading, it's sirprising what one can write in such a small space.
Have a good day.
Yvonne.
That made me laugh! LOL I have no idea why. Is it wrong to laugh at someone being murdered??? ;-/
Brilliant, Marjorie.
Perhaps your best yet, and many of them have been really great.
~ Rayna
I like this one alot, you are a great writer. I think you are very good at what you do.
Love flash fiction. Great character and 'mark'...I wonder now if what she said was true, or just a last ditch effort...will there be more?
Hi,
Great story, and I really liked the ending. I say she was just bluffing. I think she could have been maybe sick with cancer or something, and that was a quick way of ending it all.
Ruby
@ Lee- I thought I would be a little darker.
@ Lisa- I'm glad you didn't expect her to get killed. I was stretching my ability to kill of a character.
@ Yvonne- I sort of wanted it to feel like it all happened very fast. Sort of like a prolonged moment in time. I hope I got that across.
@ Alliterative- My husband had the very same reaction. It's not like my main character didn't enjoy it at any rate. He probably felt like laughing.
@ Natasha- Wow, thanks! That means a lot coming from you.
@ Whisper- Thanks for reading.
@ Raquel- I don't know if there will be more. It was just sort of stretching my wings a bit.
@ Grammy- I gather you are not one of those writers that would like killing off a character at all. I found myself actually enjoying writing this piece however sick and twisted that might make me. Haha!
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