Uncollected Blood

  Rodolfo didn’t process what Marvin had said. He just kept laughing.

  “You know what I found inside your head while you stood there and put up your little wall to trick us? You have no one in your life, no one who knows the real you, and no one to miss you. You are convenient for my pleasures.”

  The laughter stopped. Marvin could feel Rodolfo’s fear. He dug deeper into the man’s thoughts and held onto them, gazing into the desperate confusion he squeezed them for every last thought and memory. They were the thoughts and memories of a passing life.

  Then the thoughts stopped.

  It was Marvin’s favorite moment. It was crisp and clean, real silence. Nothing in the world compared to it.

  He took the money Rodolfo would never pay back. He considered it his severance pay, since Judy and Carl would know what he had done the moment he came into work on Monday. He’d just learned a thing or two about switching identities. He thought he might try a warm island. Set up a shop for the tourists. Tourists are like people who don’t pay back loans.

  They disappear all the time.

  THE END.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

  Daniel J. Kirk is a resident of Richmond, Virginia. He has written and published westerns, horror, and science fiction short stories throughout the digital world.

  He has several ongoing series, including the urban fantasy series: THE HATCHBACK WOMAN and the alien invasion series: INVASIVE SPECIES and superhero saga, UPGRADE.

  His first novel, THE FORGOTTEN PRINCESS is available now.

  He can be contacted at: dankirk@brideofchaos.com

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