Poor White Americans.

This is the second part of my first flash fiction piece regarding the age old question of guilt or innocence. Some people are geared toward living life as an honest, hard working person and then there are those who feel an entitlement to what others have earned. It is the latter of this group who have become the criminals.

A shootout…

Just the start of another busy day in the Metropolis as two old pensioners sit outside a cafe watching the world go by. One of them wonders if things are quite as they should be as he studies a blind beggar leaning against the wall of a bank across the road.

Short Story created by me.
The Story is the life of an ordinary man, who unfortunately fell to the instinct of killing another man in order to save his co-worker, and his self from a criminals hand.

Throughout history, there have been plenty of evil people. 19th Century serial killer H.H. Holmes has to be among the worst of the worst. The man possibly killed hundreds upon hundreds, snaring them in his "castle" and then doing horrible things to them. The best book about this murderer is "Depraved," by Harold Schechter.

Got to get the dirt out.

The old saying that sometimes real life is stranger than fiction is true. If you don’t believe, you need to read the non-fiction book titled Zodiac by Robert Graysmith. This book covers a series of unsolved serial killings in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The killer was never captured.

The loss of Bobby the criminal proved to be the beginning of a slow decline in the standard of living of the inhabitants of Limbo56. Then the Politician made contact with an armaments maker, and Arthur pushed his workforce to turn out weapons and war material for real goods. The armaments maker proved much greedier than the old gangs of criminals did, but a small steady supply of food and furniture, whiskey, clothes and real beer continued to flow into Limbo56. When the war ended, so did the real economy. The new economist, Jeff, was a mixed blessing. “We need to find a farmer who will sell his chickens for industrial diamonds,” he said.

In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote, is perhaps the greatest true-crime book ever written. It is told in the style of a novel, and it never lets the reader down. In Cold Blood has influenced the entire true-crime genre of literature over the last 40 or so years, but it has also influenced horror writers, including one writer of fantasy.