Blindly Following Orders by Chris Tattersall

With her wrists and ankles tied to a chair, Lucas cut her throat as the voices had told him. Her blood flowed down her naked body as she mouthed unintelligible words until death took her.

Fifteen into his twenty-year sentence, Lucas’s plea for compassionate release was approved. His glaucoma giving him tunnel vision, a decisive factor.

With her wrists and ankles tied to a chair, Lucas paused, his psychologist’s words nagging him. Taking a note from his pocket, it stated, “Don’t kill again Lucas.” Which he followed dutifully.

Seeing only “kill again” her blood flowed down her naked body.

 

 

About the Author

Chris is a Health Service Research Manager and lives with his wife, Hayley, and Border Collie in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK. He is a self-confessed flash fiction addict with some publication and competition success. A recent obsession of his is writing Novella-In-Flash. He also hosts his own flash fiction website.