A HANDSHAKE

One fine morning, Ryan woke and butchered his young wife with a meat cleaver.

He stuffed her body parts into the fridge and waited for three days for his four-year-old son to ask for his mother. But he didn't ask and so Ryan kept waiting.

On the fourth day the son replied, he whispered out a few words. Only a few words from a four-year-old to make Ryan realize that even a blood-crazed psychopath like him could be tortured to beg for death.

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A SHORT STORY