Closer Than You Think. Darren O’Sullivan

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СКАЧАТЬ past the sign welcoming him to Churchtown he turned down the car stereo and calmly drove into the village. Parking his car opposite the Boss Murphy pub, the place he met the third, he collected himself before climbing out. Opening the boot, he grabbed his rucksack which housed the tools needed for the job. The bag was lighter than with the first two. He had fine-tuned exactly what was needed for his kill. Slowly, he made his way past the pub in which he met Jack and up the hill towards his house. His hands tingled with the knowledge of how tonight would be different – an evolution, God moving though him to ensure his message would be heard as it should be. Tonight, he would do something new. Something he only recently considered. Tonight, he would punish not just the husband; tonight, he would punish the wife as well.

      When the thought first came into his head, he dismissed it. But, in the aftermath of the second and the country making the connection between the crimes, which led the media to suggest he may well be the first serial killer in the Republic of Ireland since the 1900s, he watched the victims’ families and friends say what saints they were. He listened as they called him a monster, while the dead were, by contrast, funny, kind, caring men. Men who didn’t deserve to die. Men who were now watching down from heaven above. And none spoke louder and with more conviction than the wives, the women who knew as much as he did that they deserved to die. He watched as they lied time after time to the cameras, crocodile tears falling. He watched them both declare they would love their husbands until the day they joined them in heaven. At first, he was stunned – he expected them to be happy that they were at last free, but he realised something. The men were on his list for two reasons. One: they had chosen to inflict hurt and suffering, they chose to be like his father. The second reason surprised him. The wives hadn’t left them, because they were weak. If he wanted change, men like his father and women like his mother needed to understand they had to look at themselves, alter their choices, evolve. If they didn’t, he would come for them.

      Life was about making choices, and these women, just like his own poor mother, were fated to die unhappy.

      The sub-generator was located at the end of the row of houses where the third and his wife lived. As before, killing the power was an easy task. This generator ran most of the village and from his elevated position he watched the houses below descend into darkness. Then, within minutes, the torches and candles shone, the dim light bleeding through the curtains. Although he couldn’t see anyone, he could almost taste their trepidation, their fear that quietly bubbled. Most would no doubt dismiss it out of hand, rationalising that it was just a power cut, nothing more. Because bad things didn’t happen to them.

      He entered the house via the back door, and once inside, he took the protective coverall from his bag and dressed over his clothes. Once confident he was suitably covered, with none of his skin or hair exposed and able to leave DNA, he waited quietly in the corner of the kitchen whilst the third and his wife moved around the house, Jack blaming her for the power outage. Quietly he took a roll of tape from his bag and waited. Ideally, the wife would come into the kitchen. Then he would grab her from behind, covering her mouth and tell her if she made a noise, he would kill her. Once she was bound and gagged, he could go to work on the husband. He hoped the shock and fear meant she would comply – if not, he would have to suffocate her.

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