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TITLE (EDIT)
The Final Statement. |
DESCRIPTION
A man about to be executed makes his final statement.
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AUTHOR
Bradley Grimes |
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Lives in Pennsylvania.
[September 2005] |
AUTHOR'S E-MAIL ADDRESS
badbradg@yahoo.com |
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The Final Statement.
Bradley Grimes
The needle went into his vein. It didn’t hurt. All his life needles had scared David. He use to kick and scream when his grandmother would take him for shots.
“Never again!” he would shout at her as they walked out of the doctor’s office. “Never ever again.”
Yet this time, that fear had been replaced with compassion. Compassion for once. He didn’t feel sad, or angry. It wasn’t a fight at all anymore, the hostility he once felt for mankind was gone. He was at that moment at peace with the universe.
He looked at the man putting the needle in his arm. The executioner looked back, giving a goodbye smile. He winked back.
A curtain was pulled. A layer of glass between those himself and those witnessing his execution.
“You can speak to them now.” The executioner said. He stepped aside. David looked at the glass for a moment pondering what to say. The glass was one way, so all he saw was himself. It would be the last face he would ever see.
“How do I say I’m sorry.” he started. “A long time ago there was a kid. No more than ten years of age…” he paused and thought back to a night almost a decade ago…
David sat on his bed. He looked at the recently deceased next to him. A young girl no more that sixteen. There was no pleasure greater than the look of a five hour dead girl. The skin turned into this beautiful pale gray. And he saw for once peaceful beings. He watched everyday of his life as the girls he met struggled to exist. He listened to them whine on about bills, college, jobs, marriage, kids, sex, parents, old boyfriends. And then his mind would wander.
He would think about how peaceful he could make them. He would usually invite them for dinner.
“Away from the distractions of existence.” He would say with that boyish smile. Shy, and clever. Girls fell for it every time.
Most of the girls just wanted escape. Escape from the reality of daily life. They wanted romanced. Anything to distract them. And David could always find that kind of insecure girl. He could see it in the way they walked. He sense it in the way they acted. And he could feel it in their very presence.
And so it went.
Dinner.
A movie.
And then they would make love.
The formula worked every time. It always ended with the girl smiling too. They would lay back and the girl would rant on about how great it was.
And then she would fall asleep. He would inject them with a fast acting poison and they would die in their sleep.
Quick and painless in their sleep.
David viewed it as a moment of bliss before death. He would give them the life they always wanted and then send them away. They would die happy.
And she became number eight.
He would start again tomorrow. Pick another girl. Another place. He would follow her. Learn everything he could about her. Her favorite dinner. Color. Type of guy. And then he would become that person.
He pushed the body into the trunk. He looked down at her. She still looked as if she was sleeping. He smiled thinking about how happy she must be. His kissed her forehead and closed the trunk.
The car started up fine and he pulled out of his garage and drove off. It was about four in the morning at this time.
One of his routines was to find a different place to dump them every time. It had to be somewhere far, but not too far. He always filled his tank with gas before hand.
The car traveled smoothly along the highway. The spot he picked was the nearest ones he had ever picked. It worried him, but only slightly.
The radio smoothly echoed music for insomniacs. David listened very little to the music. He kept focus on the road. The most crucial moments of his drive were right now.
He never was too sure how it happened. Whether his car had run over something, or whether it was just bad luck that night. His tire blew a flat.
He pulled to the side of the road.
“Shit” He thought about tossing on the four-ways. Deciding against it he would pull the tire out in the dark and work with the first rays of light that happened to be coming up.
Call it what you will, but fate jumped in that night. A patrol man happened to be traveling not more than two miles behind David. He pulled over to help.
David’s lawyer’s insisted on a not-guilty insanity plea. The judge was under a lot of pressure to deliver a harsh punishment. And he did. The evidence at the house worked against their not-guilty stance. Notebooks, photos and plans detailing each of the girl’s death. David was guilty as sin.
And so after a long nine years of appeals, David was finally being put to death.
“… and he watched his mother die from cancer. He watched his father fall into anti-social regression.” The mothers of the victims began crying in unison. They had been waiting for this day. For justice to finally be delivered. And now it was here and they felt no joy whatsoever. The feelings of revenge and hatred towards David had ceased. They only wanted their daughters back.
“He would grow up cold. He would grow up alone. And there would be no escape from his past. And the only thing he wanted was for people to die peacefully. No suffering or agony. And one day his obsession with pleasing and making others content would go too far.”
He paused. The executioner tapped him on the shoulder.
“I hope that after I have left this world, you will find that I can be forgiven of the wrong that I have done. I’m so sorry” He closed his eyes tightly.
He saw the faces of all the girls he had murdered. They were all smiling. He smiled.
And two minutes later a man would take David’s non-existant pulse and tell the warden that he was gone.
The warden walked out to the press and crowd waiting outside the jail. A podium had been set up.
“As of 7:02 this morning, David Carson has been successfully executed. He died after an open apology to the family members of the victims. The procedure took less than two minutes to complete.” The warden went on for another minute or so, ending his speech with a “god bless america”.
And the body of David Carson was taken to a small cemetery outside his hometown in accordance with his surviving family’s request.
A legacy would later form. A myth of an evil man. Stories would float around the town of haunting by the ghost of David. People living near his house would sell “I survived the David Carson murders” t-shirts. A professor from a college would write a book about David Carson. And no one would fully ever understand the reason behind the murders. They would only remember David as the evil soul that took away others lives.
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"I wasn't going to even read this at first because of the length, but I thought I would give it a shot and am I glad I did. Once I started I couldn’t stop, it was great. I really like the way you could sympathise with people such as your David and know that they are normally people with a troubled mind. It was very insightful and powerful, great! :)" -- Rebecca.
"This is one of the most origional stories that I have read in a long time. Kind of reminds me of a Chuck Palanuik book mixed with a Bret Ellis book. Fantastic job!" -- Skyler Clark, Evansville, IN.
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STORYMANIA PUBLICATION DATE
March 2005 |
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