Copyright-Claire Fuller
I arrived on the scene; tape was already up, sectioning the library in half.
‘It’s a bad one, Jim.’
Rick moved to the side, unblocking the view for me.
The victim – male, late forties – was spread-eagled in the middle of the aisle, naked. Words and symbols covered his entire skin. Tape held his eyes wide open, staring up.
I followed his gaze.
‘Rick, call central. We have a serial killer on our hands.’
‘But we just have the one vic.’
‘The first vic. Haven’t you read the cover?’
I pointed to the ceiling.
‘Vol.1.’ was still drying, painted in blood.
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For Friday Fictioneers.
Sandra's scribbles 
🙂 Nicely done (although not for the vic.)
janet
Definitely not for the vic. Thanks for your comment Janet.
Chilling, strangely reminds me of some books by Connely …
Assimilating my story to a crime author whose books have been translated into 35 languages; compliments cannot get any better than that! Thanks Bjorn.
More grisly humour – great stuff!
Thank you 🙂
woah ^^ well done
Thanks KZ 🙂
cool.
The vic shouldn’t have been reading the book on the ceiling, the best volumes are on the shelves.
Maybe he fell on his back trying to read the ceiling after taping his eyes open so that he wouldn’t blink and miss a word, and then he hit his head when he fell and died, and then some homeless person living in the library took his clothes. Yeah, I’m sure that’s it.
What an incredible twist you just wove there! I like it 🙂
Ooh, very interesting. Any chance you will continue this idea?
Maybe! We’ll see what next week’s prompt will bring about… 😉
“Serial killer” 🙂 Nice one. He must have read to death.
That’s one way to look at it. Thanks Sandra.
i hope u continue this ! in a way sad yet interesting !
We’ll see… thanks for your comment 🙂
Oh creepy – you managed to get a lot of tension into those few words. I like the fact that the victim was looking at something, making the reader wonder what he was looking at. Clever.
Thanks 🙂
Nice Sandra. I especially liked the Vol. 1 on the ceiling.
Thank you Joe 🙂
Dear Sandra,
What a way to go. What a way to write. Nice one.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thanks Rochelle 😀
Whoa – such a chilling ending. Nice!
Nice way to announce intent!
Scott
Mine: http://kindredspirit23.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/friday-fictioneers-4262013-genre-fiction-rated-g/
The killer has a flare for drama. Thanks Scott.
🙂
Chilling. Well done.
Nice ending. Creepy and humorous at the same time.
Thanks 🙂
My kind of mayhem!
Creative! Will we find out what Vol. 2 is?
Maybe 😉
Chilling end…still drying in blood..good job 🙂
That was very clever and fun to read. Can’t wait for the sequel.