Tuesday, January 31, 2017

100 Words a Day 1012

It was the second body found floating in the canal that week. This one was found in the afternoon; the early-riser who discovered the first corpse had changed her route. Both victims had the same bizarre wounds.

There was a ring of suckers, like an octopus’ tentacle, around their neck, an exploded nasal canal, and no brain.


The authorities were baffled and the media was having a field day. Every channel had the police chief looking uncomfortable as he was assailed by questions he couldn’t answer or some wacko claiming the killer was a forgotten monster from humanity’s distant past.

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