“4 Killer Crime Stories in 4 Minutes”
by Benjamin Sobieck
Published by Benjamin Sobieck at Smashwords
Copyright 2010 Benjamin Sobieck
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Purgatory at the Pump ‘n’ Loaf
Thirty things I remember about being stabbed to death around 2 a.m. at a Pump ‘n’ Loaf gas station:
1) The age in her voice. She approaches the service counter. “Y-You have a bathroom here?” I nod my head in the direction of the bathroom. It’s clean as of an hour ago. The graveyard shift is boring. So I clean. “T-Thank you.” She shuffles over. She tries the knob. “You only have a both-kind bathroom?” I nod. “I wait then.”
2) Swoosh. He exits the bathroom. My nostrils pick up a breeze perfumed with urinal cakes.
3) His shoes make waxy squeaks. They stop next to the woman.
4) A pause. She yelps. The bathroom door slams. She works the lock inside the bathroom.