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The Killer
by M. V. Montgomery

Shrouded in darkness, he strode into the juke joint and took up a station on a bar stool. Yes, he would be waiting here for a long time. Time would, in fact, be his first victim. 

Occasionally, the talk spread his way, but he knew just what to say to terminate a topic of conversation or to frustrate further queries. 

Gradually, the others would learn to simply leave him alone—alone to dust off glass after glass of house whiskey.