Blake Pierce: Thriller Bundle (City of Prey and Girl, Alone) by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2021-08-10T00:00:00+00:00

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Under other circumstances, it would have been an arduous journey, but the day and the hour made the usually infuriating drive between D.C. and Annadale bearable.

But as Ella reached the halfway point to her house, she decided she wasn’t yet ready to spend her evening idly chatting with people she barely knew. She took a hard left into the deserted parking lot of the Milestone bar.

If there was one thing Ella had learned from a career in law enforcement, it was that every branch had its secret hotspots. A bar that offered free whiskey shots for officers, or a restaurant that halved the bill for anyone with a badge. The Milestone was the FBI equivalent. A lot of agents and admin staff stopped by on the way home for a quick shot to take the edge off.

A heavy odor of smoke hung in the air, adding to the place’s rough-but-vintage charm. During her psychology studies, Ella had learned that modern bars outfitted their interiors entirely with metal and wooden furniture so that the sound inside was amplified, giving the illusion of liveliness. But the Milestone was one of the few bars which still boasted padded chairs and cotton drapes, designed to absorb sound and invoke a homely ambience.

Ella welcomed the lack of bodies inside. She took a seat in a red booth and pulled her laptop out of her bag, using the opportunity to ride out the hours until her roommate inevitably moved her party to a club in town. If Jenna asked where she was, she’d just say her phone died.

The bartender, a graying woman in her fifties, sauntered up to Ella’s table and dropped a jug of tap water. “Anything I can get you?” she asked, a Southern twang hanging loosely off her lips.

“Just coffee, please. Refill.”

“Can do, sweetheart. Burning the midnight oil?”

“Just needed a quiet place to come,” Ella said. “Nowhere better than here.”

“I hear that. Back in two minutes, darling.”

Ella’s laptop pinged alive and automatically connected to the bar’s Wi-Fi connection. She ran her cursor over her background—a scenic forest shot—before landing on a Word document she’d been working on.

A Psychological Analysis of Norman Bates.

Only 700 words long so far, but maybe she’d get the chance to finish it tonight. She read from the last paragraph.

A primary point to establish is that no analysis of a fictional character could ever reflect similar psychopathology if similar crimes to Bates’s were ever to occur in real life. While the seed of which Bates was born was planted by Plainfield murderer Ed Gein in the 1950s, Bates is the fictional manifestation of Gein pushed to his utmost limits, in addition to the fact that Bates must also abide by the laws of linear storytelling. The real-life story of Gein was much more haphazard and followed no such pattern, whereas Bates’s deviancy gradually escalated for the purposes of a convenient narrative. With this said, Bates displays clear behavior of a perpetrator suffering from dissociative identity disorder (DID), colloquially known as multiple personality disorder.

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