a short story by Brian S.

"Prop-The Executioner"

So on a breezy summer day in the great city of Evanston, one man became something he never thought he would be. The Executioner. A young gentlemen drunk, who everyone gleefully called "Prop," was sitting and minding his own business when he hears a "thump" in the kitchen. He walks in to fine the fierce kitty cat chasing a little bitty sparrow into the kitchen. Another "thump" and the bird goes "splat" into the window leaving a trail of blood and guts behind it. As Prop tosses the fierce Puma-like cat into the other room he searches the kitchen for this innocent maimed bird. After he cannot find it, he brings the predator back into the scene of the crime to use his remarkable senses to sniff out the prey. After finding the bird wedged under the radiator, Prop finds that he is still flapping his wings, but this time not soaring through the air, but struggling with his life. Prop, being the kind and gentle man he is, decides under great agony to put this victim out of his misery. He pumps the air rifle 5 times and shoots...The bird still twitches!!! So one more shot and the little bird is no more. He lays down silent and only the roar of the predator is heard in the background.