McCarthy tugged the black leather coat to one side to reveal the handle of a knife jammed between lower ribs.
‘I suspect this might be the source of all the blood.’
‘You reckon?’ Polanski said. ‘Do you think it killed him as well?’
‘Part of a set. Someone’s going to be pissed to find it missing.’
‘Not as pissed as Dead Guy.’
‘Small wound like that, could have taped it up.’
‘Right, with sellotape.’
‘More like duct-tape. There’s nothing you can’t fix with duct-tape.’
‘Shame he didn’t have any.’
‘Yeah, it would be a lot less paperwork. Call it in.’
A drabble is a story of exactly 100 words.
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Rob - I like the dark humour here. A solid way to protect oneself from what one sees in this business...
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