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The Killer

    I waited in the alley across from the target's work. He deserved to die. There is no doubt in my mind on this fact. Nobody will miss this nuisance. My gloves wouldn't leave a single trace of myself behind. I had been thinking of this for a long time as you might have observed. Planning his death was a sort of passing time, until I became serious about commuting the crime. I don't even care if I go to jail anymore. My deed will by considered heroic among those who have met him. It was late at night when he finally left his work. He had no idea that I was following him. I gripped the knife in my pocket tightly. It wasn't even much of a knife, really. It was a shank actually. Just a bit of metal that I sharpened myself. Nobody could trace where the murder weapon came from, since I just got it out of a junkyard. It was perfect. This plan was perfect. I silently followed him on the other side of the street, with my hood up and my head down. I even wore bigger shoes that I found. He stopped for a moment, so I took my chances and got out the knife. I looked at him for a second, and then I threw it. The shank landed in his head immedieatley killing him. He landed on the ground, and I left the scene.

        The next day, on the news, they played the security footage of the murder. Nobody saw my face, and they assumed that I was male. Typical. No woman is ever suspected of murder. The anchors also said that the police had been working on what had happened to him, and they had no leads other than a knife was lodged in his skull. Nobody showed up in the news in tears with the man's eulogy, saying how much he would be missed. The anchors didn't even say who the family members where, and they lived in the same area as he did. He isn't missed, just as I suspected. The officers hoped to find more information about him in the autopsy. HAH! They won't find anything. Other than the facts that they already knew, they wouldn't find anything. I will finally be free. I will be free of him. This was only a one time thing. They won't get any mistakes from this murder to lead to me. They will never find me.