Window

By Clint Lowe

In a building is a staircase.

Bordering the staircase is a room.

Inside the room is a window.

 

What will you see?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Clint Lowe
• Release date: Oct 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201854607

Book preview

Staircase

I agree to kill the man.

Silently, with little more than a glance of his eyes, my employer hands me a .38 Colt revolver. It’s light and slick and bleeds with the choice of life or death. I tuck the weapon under my shirt and into my belt as my temporary boss slips out the door. The sun beams through the windows like an investigator’s lamp while I sit in the red-brick building, waiting for my mark.

You sure the money’s worth it? I keep asking myself.

Then I imagine my little girls growing up in our rundown shack, wishing they had a life with the affluent. Yeah, the money’s good.

An old lady with glasses and