False Colored Eyes: A Short Story

By Sean O'Hara

I woke to a cold breeze scratching at my cheeks. I opened my eyes a crack and saw the room was filled with early morning light. In the distance I heard bells sounding. Surreptitiously, I slipped my hand under my pillow and wrapped my fingers around the hilt of the dagger I kept there. A shadow fell across the bed; I jumped up, swinging the blade in a wide arc.

A man leapt back, a gash across his chest and garrote in his hands. Before he could recover, I charged him, bringing my dagger down into his forearm then punching him square in the nose. I grabbed the man by the collar and threw him across the room, right into an expensive Noan table that shattered like an icicle that had fallen from the eaves. With a moan, the assassin rolled over, blood covering half his face.

"Mercy," he said, but even as he spoke his hand crept to his belt--towards a dagger.

I kicked the man's hand then tore his belt off. I fashioned it into a makeshift noose and slipping it around his neck. As I dragged him towards the window, the assassin's hands flailed uselessly around his throat, trying to slip his fingers between the leather and his skin. I pulled the man to his feet and sent him straight through the window. Several seconds passed before his body hit the snow-covered courtyard with a crunch that was audible even five stories up.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pulp Electronique
• Release date: Feb 21, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458115775

Sean O'Hara

Sean O'Hara was born in London in 1961, and was educated in both England and Australia, which instilled in him a love of travel and a sense of wanderlust. He spent most of his working life in the UK financial services sector. While working at the United Kingdom Pensions Regulator he was the UK delegate to the OECD on private pension matters and was also the UK delegate to the International Organisation Of Pension Supervisors. Both those roles allowed him to indulge his love of international travel. Opting for a lifestyle change he relocated to Thailand in 2009, where he lives with his wife Fon and their three dogs. He now teaches Science and English at a Thai high school. It was while living in Thailand that he killed his first cobra. He takes no pleasure from killing snakes. But neither does he like to share his garden with them. He has written two novels. ‘Opening Shot’ is his second novel. His first novel, ‘The Curse Of The White Tiger’ is set in Thailand and is also a thriller. It will soon be available through the Smashwords platform.

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