A Reconstructed Corpse (2012)
“His mind wasn’t working properly. Ideas floated there loosely, unable or perhaps unwilling to make connections.
He forced himself to go closer to the body. He registered that the spattered blood was still bright red and shiny. It had only just stopped flowing, and had not yet begun to dry and turn brown.
With an even greater effort he leant forward to touch the flesh of Greg Marchmont’s hand. It was warm. The sergeant had not been long dead.
Then he noticed on the floor a sheet torn from a note...book. On it were scrawled the words: ‘I’M SORRY. I THOUGHT I COULD COPE WITH EVERYTHING, BUT WHEN IT CAME DOWN TO IT, I JUST COULDN’T STAND THE PRESSURE’ There was no means of knowing whether the lack of full stop after the last word was just carelessness or whether the message was incomplete. The dutiful use of punctuation in the rest of the message might point to the second conclusion.
Charles Paris backed away. Ring the police. Dial 999 and get the message across. That was the only coherent thought crystallising in his mind.MoreLess
He forced himself to go closer to the body. He registered that the spattered blood was still bright red and shiny. It had only just stopped flowing, and had not yet begun to dry and turn brown.
With an even greater effort he leant forward to touch the flesh of Greg Marchmont’s hand. It was warm. The sergeant had not been long dead.
Then he noticed on the floor a sheet torn from a note...book. On it were scrawled the words: ‘I’M SORRY. I THOUGHT I COULD COPE WITH EVERYTHING, BUT WHEN IT CAME DOWN TO IT, I JUST COULDN’T STAND THE PRESSURE’ There was no means of knowing whether the lack of full stop after the last word was just carelessness or whether the message was incomplete. The dutiful use of punctuation in the rest of the message might point to the second conclusion.
Charles Paris backed away. Ring the police. Dial 999 and get the message across. That was the only coherent thought crystallising in his mind.MoreLess
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