A Murderer is an Artist

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 Chapter 6         

Smooth brushstrokes.

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Two

Three.

He dips the paintbrush into the bucket again and continues. 

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Two

Three.

The resin spreads evenly over the body.

He chuckles to himself. “Like this, you’ll never decay.”  He carefully holds up an arm and meticulously paints the fingernails.  The man gently drops it, and rearranges the body.   The moon is bright outside as he neatly folds two pretty white hands across the lap and continues his coating of a broken body.  The flaws will be taken care of.  Later.

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