CATHARSIS - A SONG FOR A SERIAL KILLER

CHAPTER 1

Luciano Augusto Galvão

Copyright © 2021 Luciano Augusto Galvão

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Contents

Do you believe love can transform a terrible serial killer into a good person?

Can narcissism, excessive vanity and pride make a young man with brilliant talents a terrible killer?

A young guy, Gabriel, is a poor locksmith, but with great aspirations for the arts. He is also the criminal the police are desperately looking for around Portland. He is cunning and has all the skills of a serial killer.

But something happens to his soul. Whenever he commits a murder, Gabriel tries to commit suicide, to get rid of his cruel nature. He does not understand so many terrible feelings within him.

Until he meets Vivian, a beautiful music teacher whose self-esteem is overshadowed by past family problems and her disappointment with the current state of her life, dissatisfied and frustrated with love. She has never experienced the freedom to be herself, until she meets Gabriel.

Together, they will discover that love can really work miracles. But the challenges will be enormous. They will face Victor, a narcissistic, vain young man and the teacher's best student.

Although seemingly confident, due to his arrogant and narcissistic way, Victor was totally insecure, and as a defense mechanism, he developed a certain dexterity in manipulation and cynicism, "skills" that, in his logic, he used with some frequency because they were able to compensate for his imperfections, his flaws.

As he was the best at everything, he felt comfortable in music school. As a member of Professor Vivian's class, that was a massage on his ego, because there he could show to the other students that he was the best pianist. There, he performed as if he were the school's superstar, getting all the attention he always wanted to have.

But when faced with a real challenge - Gabriel - this "sand castle of images" falls apart in particles and Victor shows his real and frightening face.

Due to his immense narcissism and ego, the "last straw" was not the fact that he was not chosen by Vivian, but the fact that he knew that any guy, simple and poor could be better than him.

Who is crazier after all: a serial killer, who is born with this nature and develops his psychological problems during his life, or someone who has everything to be a good person, but turns into a monster and destroys people's lives just to nurture his pride and vanity?

INSIDEGABRIEL'S CAR - NIGHT

Gabriel

"When you leave,

Snow white girl, take me.

If you can't carry me

by the hand, snow white girl,

take me in the heart.

If in the heart for some reason you cannot

take me,

girl of dream and snow,

take me in your remembrance.

And if there you cannot either

for so much that you take

already alive in your thought,

snow white girl,

take me..."

Prostitute

"It's beautiful. What is it called?"