Death Without Parole #1

By Christopher Lee Cousino

Patrick Noel is a prisoner at Cook Penitentiary, facing a life sentence for the murder of his wife and son, a crime he didn't commit. But Patrick is also keeping evil under lock and key in a prison of his own...his body. As Patrick tries to fight the monster within, he will discover that his curse may turn out to be the world's saving grace.

Rot in a cell next to Patrick as he faces Death Without Parole in this new horrifying short story from Christopher Lee Cousino, the author of the superhero novel Homeless, the Zombie Hero series, and numerous short stories.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christopher Lee Cousino
• Release date: Jun 22, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476166575

Christopher Lee Cousino

By day, Christopher Lee Cousino is a Licensed Practical Nurse at a group home for special needs adults. But by night, he morphs into Super Writer, an author with the ability to lose sleep and create fiction for your enjoyment. He is hard at work on many novels and stories, so stay tuned. Christopher lives in Hudsonville, Michigan with his beautiful wife, three wonderful children, two free-loading cats, and his brave, loyal chocolate lab. www.christopherleecousino.com

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Death Without Parole

A Short Story

By

Christopher Lee Cousino

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Death Without Parole

A Short Story

Copyright © 2012 by Christopher Lee Cousino

Copyright © 2012 by BSIC Publishing Company

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

About the Author

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.

Bela Lugosi (1882-1956) Hungarian Actor and star of Broadway play and Hollywood movie DRACULA (1931)

Death Without Parole

Chapter 1

NOW

Lights out Noel. The guard smacked the bars with his nightstick, then moved on to the next cell to tell it’s occupant it was bedtime. Patrick Noel didn’t like the guard. His name was Ralph, and he was a real douchebag. The pompous, arrogant prison guard enjoyed the power his job brought him a little too much. Ralph liked to pick on, not to mention beat on, the smaller inmates at Cook Penitentiary. Patrick was one of Ralph’s favorite victims. Of course, it wasn’t as painful for Patrick as it was for the others, at least not physically. Mentally and emotionally, however, it was draining and extremely frustrating.

He could barely control himself and his anger…his urges. Every time the roided-out Ralph decided to use Patrick as a punching bag, it took everything the smaller man had to avoid the instinctual hunger that bubbled up inside him. It would be so easy to just give in…to feed. But Patrick had made himself, and more importantly his late wife and son, a promise. That he would never give in to the monster. He would beat this curse…or find a way to kill himself, whichever came first.

Grabbing the family picture off the wall next to his bed, Patrick held