Helen Wilby

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“An Interview With a Killer” by Helen Wilby

Submitted to Contest #70

Trigger warning: child murder   The man spoke so quietly that I could hear the phlegm move in his throat as he addressed the jury. He was the defendant’s lawyer, and looked exactly how you are imagining him in your head as you read this - a broad, grey man in a broad, grey suit. He wore a gold watch, that I imagined a girlfriend gifting him when he graduated law school, on the steps of a university that they wouldn’t be able to afford to send their own kids to. He was also wearing glasses with a tiny crack in the left lens. The average ...

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