The disgruntled worker’s fury

By Todd Hicks

Already on edge and waiting to erupt, Stuart Del Guard is a sociopath and walking time bomb not to be reckoned with. While happily married and gainfully employed, his most dangerous impulses are tempered. 
 
After incurring a finger injury on the job then pleading for safer tasks, he is waved off. He reaches the boiling point. Subsequently divorced. Fired.
 
Seeking revenge and validation, he unleashes his fury. The longer he's on the loose, the more cunning he becomes. More ruthless.
 
Can he be contained? Discover the answer by buying this book.
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookRix
• Release date: Feb 26, 2021
• ISBN: 9783748775805

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The disgruntled worker’s fury

The disgruntled worker’s fury

By Todd Hicks

Copyright by Todd Hicks in February 2021, December 2023

About the book

Already on edge and waiting to erupt, Stuart Del Guard is a sociopath and walking time bomb not to be reckoned with. While gainfully employed as a logistics worker besides being happily married, his most dangerous impulses are tempered and kept in check. 

Unfortunately for him, his antisocial and mean-spirited tendencies catch up to him. Once he is fired, his livelihood is uprooted from him, his wife divorces him and he loses his friends, the worst is brought out in him. 

Seeking revenge and validation, he murders people at the warehouse where he recently worked. The longer he's on the loose, the more cunning and ruthless he becomes.

The names of the characters and places mentioned in this story are fictional. Any similarity between the characters and any actual persons or places is purely coincidental.

Chapter 1

He was on a trigger-happy tear. Stuart Stu Del Guard was in the moment, using his bare hands to choke the merriment out of another dude who ticked him off by chopping one of his hands through the newspaper he was reading on a park bench on a sunny day.

As Stuart tightened his grip, the other guy began to wonder if what he did to this man who did nothing to him was worth it – this was unusual for him because he went through life having no regrets and rarely second-guessed his actions. His life slowly ending, he displayed remorse and pleaded for his life to be spared through his eyes.

However, Stu wasn’t having it – his ego, brutal nature and propensity to finish whatever he started (no matter how heinous) wouldn’t let him ease up. Luckily for the one whose life was coming to an end, a bystander pried Stu off him.

What in the heck are you doing? Stu asked the man who couldn’t mind his own business enough for his liking.

Bystander: I am saving this misguided dude’s life. All human life is precious, my friend.

Stu: What in blazes for? Didn’t you see what he did to me? He had the chutzpah to rip my paper even though I was minding my own business and not bothering anyone. And don’t call me ‘friend’.

Bystander: I witnessed what he did and don’t condone it but that doesn’t give you the license to kill him over it and thus I had no choice but to intervene.

Stu: You should have butted out. Nobody messes with me or interferes with how I conduct my business and gets away with it.

As the bystander resumed arguing, Stu lunged for him and screamed out of rage.  

Wake up, honey, implored Davida Del Guard, Stuart’s wife.

Responding to Davida shaking him by the shoulder as he lied in bed, Stu inferred, I had a bad dream.

That must be the case, because you screamed in your sleep, informed Davida.

Do you mind filling me in on what occurred in your nightmare? asked the wife.

Stuart agreed, "I don’t mind doing it at all, Davida. I don’t consider it a nightmare, just a perturbing dream. As I minded my own business and read a copy of our local newspaper on