MOÏRA'S PORTRAITS

Moïra is a student majoring in computer science. She works at a coffee shop near her university, does community service every Saturday and helps first-year students with private lessons ; nothing out of the ordinary for someone her age.

She is also fond of painting and drawing, with a particular interest in corpses and dismembered bodies. Her sketchbooks are full of them. Whilst her friends think the models are picked from the horror movies she is always watching, they are actual real people. Innocent and hopeless fellow students she had murdered in the most gruesome way. To her, they were her miracles, her muses whose portraits she could only raise once they were dead, bathing in their own blood. For over six years, she had been on this cruel journey, unable to stop this growing desire to possess people.

However, things changed the night she met him. Her utopia, her only source of happiness, all of it was gone because of that bastard, that man who challenged her. When she held her gun against his throat, the last thing she imagined was him begging for her to kill him. Yet there he was, looking her dead in the eyes, showing nothing but exasperation and despair. It caused her to lose any artistic creativity. She felt miserable, so far, every single one of her victims either ran or implored her to spare their lives. But he didn't, he actually asked for the opposite.

An insatiable hatred had grown inside of her from that night. She wanted him dead, buried in her basement forever.

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This is a novella I divided in ten chapters or seven, I have not made my choice yet. The chapters are quite long.

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