The Kidnapping Case is Now a Homicide

This 55 word fiction could be read as the third part in a series of four. Find the prequel tales by clicking, here, and here. Read the final tale, click here.

The victim had been a girl of exceptional beauty. Nineteen. Red-haired. Her porcelain beauty magnified the hideousness of the killer's defilement. A severed chicken head protruded from her mouth. Her shredded blouse revealed a pentagram carved into her chest. Seeing this latest horror, Harlan wondered if he could still stand to be a police detective.