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.And with his magic touch with a needle and thread, Hartford had constructed his best ever.It was drawing near.His project was almost complete.Night three – a Bass ActHartford was too worn out to drive all the way to New York that night.Working almost non-stop for two days and nights, with about two hours sleep, had taken its toll.However, he wanted to finish his project.He longed to see and feel it.So he called two of his work mates (ex work mates now, Hartford thought with some bitterness) – Dave and Rochelle.Dave was his second cousin, a tall, lanky guy, funny, popular at work.Rochelle was attractive enough, was also popular at work, but not especially funny.They had been married for about two years now.He didn’t particularly like either one of them, but he had worked with them both for about five years, and Dave was a relative, so it was a sure bet they would come over.He figured it’d be a good time to settle some scores.Plus, he needed two spines.“Hi Dave.”“Hartford?”“Yeah, of course it’s me.How are ya?”“Yeah, fine.Ah, what’s up?”“You busy tonight, buddy? You and Rochelle?”There was murmuring in the background.Then: “Why?”“I thought maybe you two would like to come over for some drinks.Talk about what happened.Words were said in the heat of the moment, things I’m sure we all regret.It would be nice if we could all make up.I don’t want my old job back or anything.I just thought we could settle things.Whaddya say?”A long pause.Finally: “Ah, I guess.Okay.Sure.We’ll be over in an hour.”“Super.See you then.”* * *Just over an hour later, Dave and Rochelle turned up.“Evening Hartford,” Dave said.“It’s good to see you,” Rochelle said as she followed Dave into the house.“Glad you both could make it.Come in and sit down.” Hartford led them into the lounge room.Dave and Rochelle took a seat on the sofa.“Drinks?”“Please.I’ll have a whiskey.On the rocks.”“And I’ll have a gin and tonic,” Rochelle said.Hartford nodded, hurried over to the drink cabinet and made the drinks.When he returned, Dave smiled up at him.“So.What’re you up to? Things going well?”“Can’t complain.Been working on a new project, as a matter of fact.Top secret, though.So I’m keeping busy.”“Is that so?” Dave said and took a sip of his drink.“Oh, I almost forgot.I’ve got snacks in the kitchen.I’ll be back in a moment.”“Really, there’s no need,” Rochelle said.“No, it’s my pleasure.” Hartford hurried into the kitchen and grabbed the frying pan.He then strolled back.“Really, we’re not hun…” Dave started, but when he saw the pan raised in the air, he gasped.Hartford brought the pan down hard, and it cracked Dave’s head with a loud thong!As Dave flopped to the floor, Rochelle screamed and dropped the glass of gin and tonic.“OHMYGOD!!” she cried, and that was the last utterance she ever spoke.* * *There were a few annoyances Hartford had to deal with.Namely, cleaning the small amount of blood that had soaked into the carpet, dragging the two bodies into the bathroom and taking off their clothes.He found these tasks menial and uninteresting.But, as he was too tired to bother about getting a prostitute, they were unavoidable.After doing those bothersome jobs, Hartford settled down to the real work.He hacked off their heads and sawed off the tops (Dave had a real big head, which was perfect for Hartford’s needs).Then he opened up their chests and stomachs and tore out all their organs.He didn’t mind the mess and smell anymore.And he didn’t even vomit once.Finally he had Dave and Rochelle’s spinal cords.He held one up and tested its elasticity.It bent nicely.“Sensational,” Hartford muttered and felt a warm tingle surge through his naked body.He washed himself off in the shower, just to cool off, then took a long drink of Sprite.Next he sliced off the skin.And as with all the other times, he only cut the skin from the torso: this had the most surface area, therefore was the most useful.When he had four gory slabs of skin (one complete with two saggy breasts), Hartford scrubbed them free of all flesh, tendons and blood, then dried them using the hair dryer.He took the two spines, the slabs of yellow, wrinkled skin and the two skull tops into his work shed.In there he also had hordes of leg and arm bones, three more skull tops and two spines he got from the hooker and purple fedora [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]