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    Crispy Critters
    Crispy Critters
    Crispy Critters
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    Crispy Critters

    By Theo Cage

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    "Wow! Where to even begin. I absolutely loved this story!! It was an easy read but not a fluff story either. It was very engaging and had my full attention from the start. Although what these two friends are doing is wrong in every way, a part of me wanted them to succeed and get away with their "projects". Not to say that they didn't have a match up with two unsavory characters that gave the two main characters, Leo and Gordon, a run for their money...and their lives. My only complaint would be that the story wasn't long enough!! I wanted more! It was that good!! Maybe someday this story will turn into a full blown book. I would buy it in an instant. I loved this story! It was entertaining, thrilling, and a story that I wont soon forget and will recommend to anyone who will listen. Mr Theo Cage has made a fan for life out of me!!Sometimes you have to do the hard things."

    Amazon Review, Ana Medina 

    A child molester has moved into their neighbourhood and they're not happy about it - two retired guys with too much time on their hands - and revenge etched across their sclerotic hearts.

    A short crime thriller by Theo Cage.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTheo Cage
    Release dateSep 18, 2014
    ISBN9781502238764
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      Crispy Critters - Theo Cage

      BOOKS BY THEO CAGE

      ––––––––

      SPLICER (2012)

      BUZZWORM (2013)

      SATAN’S ROAD (2014)

      THRIFT SHOP (2014)

      ON THE BLACK (Fall 2014)

      DAREDEVIL’S CLUB (2015)

      EMERGENT (2015)

      RAY GUN (2015)

      ––––––––

      When I was a teenager, I discovered a cache of well-thumbed paperbacks that a friend’s uncle kept stored in his basement. That summer was my first introduction to Robert Heinlein, Frederic Pohl, Isaac Asimov and HP Lovecraft.

      Up to this point, my only exposure to short stories were the anthologies – Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, etc. So I eagerly gobbled up that whole, musty library. But when I cracked the spine on my first Lovecraft horror story - it was like being infected by an addictive parasite. No one could create atmosphere like Lovecraft - or dwell on the gruesome details so lovingly. I still can’t get some of those images out of my head.

      Now I am no Lovecraft, but I’ve always wanted to write a short story that scored high on the creepy-crawly meter. But modernized. And what could be more revolting than a child molester? And two retired guys with too much time on their hands - and revenge etched across their sclerotic hearts.

      Theo Cage

      Crispy Critters

      Leo wound the monofilament line around the man’s neck with practiced hands, the shiny tether sparkling in the light of their high-powered flashlight. His partner, Gordon, stood over their captive, holding both of his wrists as the pedophile struggled. Gordon jerked the man’s arms back to quiet him for at least the tenth time in the last fifteen minutes. Leo was in his seventies, retired over twenty years, but his hands were as steady as a seamstress’s - his large meaty fingers working the fine line like a surgeon.

      The mono was Gordon’s idea. He had no idea where it came from. He had spent his working life as a firefighter, then a fire inspector - not the most creative career choice. But now, the project he and Leo were working on had lit a fire under them, no pun intended. Gordon loved the open-ended quality of their work together. No bosses. No routine. Every job, a fresh new adventure.

      The pedophile squeaked this time, his voice slowly but certainly being cut off by the thin line wrapped around his throat. And his eyes were wide now, big yellow saucers in the dim light of his filthy bungalow. Leo and Gordon had worked on this effect for some time and made a lot of mistakes. But they had it down now, and they relished the recipe as if it was the colonel’s special own. You don't want a man thrashing around and doing damage, but you also don't want him sedated so much that he misses the point. It's a fine line. And the point of this exercise is all about that fine line.

      The man they held, his chest bare and his arms covered in needle tracks, was Nelson Parrish. He was about forty, thin, no more than 120 pounds, which made this whole process a lot easier than it normally was. Plus the roofies they gave him made wrangling him easier too.

      Parrish lived in a rented house on a broken down street in northern Phoenix called Cable Road. His neighbors hated him, avoided him assiduously. After all, he was a known child rapist just released from Clayton maximum in Minneapolis. The FBI now published the names and addresses of all known released sex offenders. You could look it up on the Internet with very little difficulty.

      A neighborhood group called Mothers for Sanity had pasted a poster on the light pole just down the block with a grainy picture that didn't really do Nelson justice. He had shaved the eighties mustache the day he was released. Gordon found that odd. Why would you want to spend one day more in prison than you had to looking like a cop from Hill Street Blues?

      Leo and Gordon were going to give Nelson what he deserved. Well, not exactly what he deserved. They didn't really have the stomach for that. Nelson’s record showed that he had abused at least five young boys all under the age of twelve over the past ten years. How do you pay someone back for that kind of atrocity? They had given it a lot of consideration and couldn't come up with a balanced response. Mostly they wanted him just gone. They weren't in this for kicks. They were doing a job no one else wanted to do or had the balls to talk about. They didn't really give a shit about what the bleeding hearts thought. They had worked hard their whole lives, raised families, paid their taxes. This piece of shit was only a turd in the yard no one else wanted to bury.

      Leo finished the fine detail on the monofilament. The line was now digging into the grey unshaven flesh of Nelson’s neck, fifty-pound test, the thickest they could find at a local sporting goods store. They used mono because it was plastic,

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