143rd Challenge
Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers
Week of 11-28 through 12-04-2017
by
A PESTY MURDER
By Neel Anil Panicker
“Sir, I, I …me…I mean I was here…about to enter the lift when…”
Crime Branch Senior Inspector Yashwant Sharma looked through his rimless oval glasses at the bumbling figure in from of him and wondered not for the first time that evening whether the man in front of him could be the killer or worse, did he have it in him to be the killer.
His brain screamed a big ‘NO’.
The man was a shade under five feet and was blessed with a body shape that looked like a cross between a scraped off chicken bone and an half-formed mouse from a laboratory experiment gone horribly wrong.
The woman, an Amazonian near six feet, was found dead on the bedroom floor, strapped to a steel chair, her hands tied to the back with thick plastic rope, her face a mashed potato.
It looked like someone had stomped all over her. And there was no way this
grasshopper of a man, her husband, could have done this deed, the wily cop surmised.
If so, then who?
Did he pay someone to kill her?
If not, then who else?
Inspector Sharma’s detective brain turned into a kite straining to break off its harness.
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A good old fashioned mystery.
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Thanks a lot, Kelly.
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I’d say the grasshopper did it, but to be fair, he may have suffered years of domestic abuse from his wife, driving him to desperation (it happens, it’s just not reported very much).
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Quite possible, that is enough of a motive for a murder to happen. Thanks James.
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It wouldn’t be the first time.
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I don’t think the husband did it I think he hired it done. LOL! Great story Neel!
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