Malignant Little Bastards by M.E. Purfield

Author:M.E. Purfield
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dark crime, serial killer, mystery, crime, murder mystery, thriller, suspense, hotel crime, killer kids
Publisher: trash books
Published: 2023-09-18T00:00:00+00:00

Bonus Story:

The Good Deed

Sarah Dunlap spotted the stalled car on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike. Since she was one of few vehicles this time of night, deep in the AM, she slowed down in the right lane and tried to peek into the red four-door SUV. The over-head light illuminated the inside but it didn’t help with the wall of downpour and the lack of street lights towering over the glossy asphalt.

No. No one was inside unless they were laying in the back waiting for a tow truck. Or were they on the road in this weather looking for help?

About a mile later, Sarah found her answer. A lone figure in jeans, a hoody, and a backpack hunched over by the pressure of the wind and rain. The way the wet clothes fit on them, Sarah could tell it was a woman.

She honked her horn to make the woman aware of her Acura, slowed into the shoulder, and opened the side passenger window. The wet woman peered into Sarah’s car and smiled. A white woman ten years younger than Sarah, maybe in her early twenties, with long blond hair hanging from the hood over her head, and a small mole on her left cheek. She smiled at Sarah, making her eyes squint a bit.

“Hi,” Sarah said. “Was that your SUV back there?”

“Yes,” the woman said. “It broke down and my cell went dead.”

“I can take you to the next rest stop.”

“Oh, my God. Could you? That would be so great.”

Sarah smiled.

“Of course.” She pressed the unlock button and reached into the backseat filled with her duffle bags and shopping bags. A roll of paper towels was on top of the snacks and drinks. She unwrapped the plastic covering and handed it to the woman as she sat down and closed the door. “Here you go.”

The woman smiled and took the towels, ripping sheets off to dry her face and hair.

“You are an angel,” she said. “You always come this prepared in helping people out?”

Sarah turned the heat on low and then eased back onto the Turnpike.

“Nah,” Sarah said. “I’m just on a long trip.”

“I must be soaking into the seat. You have a towel I can sit on?”

“Don’t worry about it. It will dry later,” Sarah said.

“Where’re you heading, if you don’t mind me asking?”

“Buffalo. New York. I came from North Carolina.”

“That is a trip.”

“Sure is. I started at 5 AM this morning.”

“And you haven’t stopped?”

“Nope. Well, I took twenty-minute cat naps at rest stops. Twice. But pretty much coffee and sugar has me going.”

The woman, done with the paper towels, placed the roll on the dash and the damp used ones on top of her backpack between her legs.

“You a trucker?” she asked. “You sound like you know how to travel on the road.”

“No. But I could be, right? I’m kind of between jobs now. Hoping to find luck up in Buffalo.”

“I’m from Jersey,” the woman said. “Jersey City. Came from my parents’ place down in Jackson.”

“Grew up in Jackson?”

“Yeah.

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