Jack the Ripper – A Love Story ( Excerpt 47 )
Well, I had taken my first victim, but in truth it was a very unsatisfactory experience. Due to the Police and their patrols I had to rush it. I wanted to take pleasure in carving her up, but instead it was a rush job, very poorly done. It could have been done by a Butcher and I so wanted it to be a work of art, Incisions to take pride in.
The broadsheets were having a field day, I have been christened ‘Jack the Ripper’ or the ‘Beast of Whitechapel’ neither of them very flattering, but fair comment they have yet to see me at my best, maybe then their tone will change.
But then again, sensationalism sells newspapers, the truth never did, so I suppose I will just have to grit my teeth and get used to the idea, such is the price of fame or infamy. The newspapers are already taking sides, The more radical ones are blaming the Jews, of which there are many in Whitechapel, who will they blame next I wonder?
After reading the broadsheet over breakfast, I left for the Infirmary in a reasonably contented frame of mind. I was sat in my office, catching up on patient files when I had an unexpected visitor, one whose presence had me reeling!
(C) Damian Grange 2018
The scariest thing there is, hos the human lives next to the lucid killer….
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I don’t think the real Jack realises he’s turned the corner from sanity to insanity!
Thank you for your continued interest!
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(… really crazy people rarely do…. )
Truly what you do here is AWESOME! My interest just comes from that and it’s a real pleasure for me to follow this intrigue
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Once again thank you for your undoubted interest, As it progresses he gets more obsessional!
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Wonderful! Inside the mind of a killer. I’m liking this and can’t wait to see who his unexpected visitor is.
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I always try to keep the reader guessing, that’s why the instalments vary in length. Many thanks for your interest!
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I love that! I want me brain to think!:)
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Intrigue and suspense! 😊
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Thank you so much, Hopefully it will get better or worse depending on your point of view!
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I can’t wait for next chapter…….it is getting more and more intriguing and deeper inside jack s mind😍
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What I like about this story is its plausibility.
Some of the victims- they thought it was a butcher who did it.
Others killed in a more surgically inclined manner- a surgeon.
But if in his first killing, he was rushed for some reason, he might have to settle for a butcher’s job.
I love the way you’re able to get into the killer’s mind.
Complaining about the unfairness of the press in covering his crimes. LOL !
Sounds like a politician.
He’ll soon start complaining about fake news.
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