What
happens when a renowned Indiana artist becomes obsessed with his muse while
trying to create his masterpiece? Speed City Sisters in Crime chapter member
C.A. Paddock explores this question in the short story, The Making of a Masterpiece. It is included among a collection of
18 short stories of murder and suspense in the art world in The Fine Art of
Murder. The Fine Art of Murder is available at amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com
and walmart.com.
“She won’t even see it coming,” a hoarse
voice echoes in his head. And with that encouragement he raises his Bowie knife
and slashes through her mid-section. As the steel blade again cuts through the
air and down the side of her porcelain-like face, he howls his disgust at her.
“You destroyed us. You destroyed our
perfect relationship. Now you will pay for what you’ve done to me! I gave you
my all for months and months and what do you I get from you? Nothing, nothing
that’s what. You lead me on with your beauty and your charms and your teasing
perfection. But you betrayed me with all of it!”
He lifts the knife with even more fervor and
slices her over and over, carving out his anger and fear, until he stops suddenly
and falls on his knees. His hand, so gnarled and cramped from holding the
weapon, gives out and he drops the knife. He stares down at what he has done
and knows that she would have screamed out, if she could have, because the pain
had to be unbearable. He feels it himself, the small burning sensation that
soon engulfs him in a full-fledged roar of flaming agony. He waits and listens,
half-expecting to see her rise up and cry out.
The only sound he hears is the moan that escapes his lips.
The only sound he hears is the moan that escapes his lips.
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