Inconceivable

[alleyalligator]

“This is my favourite part coming up now.  Wait for it… wait for it… and there it is.  That moment when the spirit departs the body, that’s what I live for.  It’s the greatest high there is.”

Personally, I thought the greatest high was the after-kill sex, but Rob never liked it when I disagreed with him, so I just made a non-committal grunt.  It

Comments

[soprano1790]

Oh wow... This is very creepy and horrifying. How did you come up with it? Very well written and... Well, inconceivable is definitely the word. :)

[alleyalligator]

It's based partly in the French film "Martyrs" which is about using torture to enforce spiritual enlightenment, although they don't kill their subjects because otherwise they wouldn't be able to report back on what they say, and an interview with one of the actors in a slasher movie ("The Loved Ones") who said that if his character didn't have his daughter, he'd be a straightforward serial killer because he enjoyed watching that moment of death.

If you've seen both those films, then it's actually a pretty obvious entry!

[halfshellvenus]

Oh, boy. Creepy, disturbing (really disturbing), and yet it utterly fits the prompt and the characters are all-too-believable.

I wish we could say such people don't exist, but we know better.

The twist at the end was a nice surprise, too.

[alleyalligator]

Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoyed it.