happy families :: m.g.c.

epilogue

breaking news. mass murderer michael clifford, also known as mike-ro-wave, has been found and killed at his hideaway on bowery bay boulevard near laguardia airport. police urge citizens that he has been killed and that they can rest easy.

the head of the of the police spoke today. here's what he said.

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michael gordon clifford is dead. he was discovered late yesterday evening and killed on sight. officers sent into the home found a diary belonging to the deceased. we have found interest in one of the first entries, dated october third, two thousand and seven.

i found them today. i found alice, casey and nathan in the basement. they were dead. i asked mum and dad about it. they said they did it. i started to cry. they said it was for the best. that life is horrible. they didn't want their teenage children changing into adults. the world was too harsh, too vicious. they said that my time would come next year, when i was thirteen. i asked them why they didn't kill them when they turned thirteen. alice was eighteen, casey was seventeen, nathan was fourteen. they said that they hadn't realised what they needed to do. they said they were lucky they figured it out before alice turned twenty. they said they could't kill her once she was an adult.

i made my first kill that day. i killed my parents, thinking that they were in pain, even while they slept before i plunged my knife into their chest. i dragged them downstairs to be with the others. i was about to kill myself, but then i realised i needed to be around to save other teenagers from becoming depressed adults.

after all, life hurt more than death.

i went upstairs to microwave some pizza. then it hit me. i couldn't use my name. i was a superhero saving lives. i needed a superhero name.

and so, i became mike-ro-wave.

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mali turned off her television. it was finally over.

they had killed him.