Something in the Dark
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“I didn’t really want to kill you,” he said.
“It wasn’t you,” Austin told him. “It was that thing— that whatever it was we found in the dark. It got inside all of us. You. Me. Brian.”
“Hmmm,” said Muncie, sleepily.
The moon rose and by its light Austin could see Muncie’s blood, a black stain across her fingers.
“You never really played the game, Austin. Not like me and Brian. You never did anything bad at all.” His hand fell away from his neck, but it didn’t matter. The blood had stopped.
“Of course I did, Muncie,” said Austin. “I killed you.”
Across the bowl of the sky the stars came out.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pamela Cowan writes mystery and suspense thrillers. Her short fiction has been published in various magazines and read on radio. Cowan has worked as an audio producer, a magazine editor, and in the probation and parole side of criminal justice. Like Austin, she once owned a landscaping business in Southern Oregon.
She now lives with her husband and a number of four-legged roommates near Portland, Oregon where she is currently working on her fourth novel, Cold Kill.
Visit her website @ pamelacowan.com and sign up for the quarterly giveaway or the Kill Your Colleague Contest!
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