Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories by Bryan Smith

Author:Bryan Smith [Smith, Bryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781941918487
Publisher: Grindhouse Press
Published: 2019-05-12T04:00:00+00:00

A SLASHER’S DILEMMA

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Sometimes even serial killers have to balance home life and career aspirations.

THE MAN AREA MEDIA HAD long ago branded “The Lone Star Slasher” started getting impatient after an hour of waiting for his intended victims. He was standing hunched-over in a cramped bedroom closet. A low shelf kept him from standing fully erect. It was an uncomfortable place to hide, in purely physical terms, but being in the closet put him in perfect position to do the work he’d come here to do. He was therefore reluctant to vacate the closet in search of a hiding place that would place less strain on his aching back.

Having been at the hack ’n’ slash game for more than twenty years, he still had much of the zeal for killing that had characterized his long career in serial murder. Thanks to advancing age and a changed set of priorities, however, opportunities to engage in his life’s greatest passion had become increasingly rare in recent years.

When he first started out, he had a lot more freedom to go wherever he wanted any time he wanted. He was young and single with no serious attachments and little in the way of outside obligations. Other than the six hours he used to put in at his part-time job at the video rental store five days a week, his time was his own. In his lone wolf days, he’d been free to prowl the streets of various Texas cities in search of victims for hours on end. Back then there’d been no social media and the internet had been in its infancy. The world was less connected and it was easier to get up to nefarious nocturnal activities. There were no smartphones and less constant surveillance of citizens in general. He hadn’t known it at the time, but it’d been a golden age for mad slashers.

Not that he was actually “mad” or otherwise mentally inhibited. He was a bit above average in intelligence and, as far as he’d ever been able to tell, was perfectly sane. He knew the difference between right and wrong and had no problems separating fantasy from reality. There were no voices in his head telling him to do what he did. Aside from that one time when he’d tried peyote in his college days, he’d never hallucinated. Nor were his urges driven by abuses or traumas he’d experienced in his youth. He understood this was a common scenario in cases of serial murder, but it wasn’t the case for him.

To the contrary, he’d grown up in an ordinary and happy middle-class home. His parents loved him and he received all the support a kid could ever ask for. He didn’t get bullied at school, and while he hadn’t been part of the popular crowd, he hadn’t been a social outcast either. To all outward appearances, he was the most normal guy ever. None of his friends or acquaintances would ever guess he’d committed more than forty vicious murders over the course of almost a quarter-century.

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