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Black Crime Drama

This story contains themes or mentions of mental health issues.

a lady sitting through night reading as usual,and down stairs in the unit below ,she hears the old woman Eva,rambling away and who Eva does not usually have any care worker or a friend visiting through night,so the book lady finds this rambling of eva quite annoying and several times she hears Eva rambling nonsense and opening and closing her door repeatedly while the book lady tried to piece together of Eva's conservation through night and knowing Eva is quite unwell some time with mental health and thinks she could one mutter words from Eva down stairs,which sounded like a gun shooting.but ignored Eva for awhile and continued with her book to read ,

the scraggly haired eva from Eva could be heard through morning as Eva screamed through the housing block carpark,and book lady ,easy going and a quiet neighbour seeked out to investigate.but meanwhile Eva and her scraggly uncombed hair,just wont stop jabbering and when Eva seen the book lady by day she would even talk and babble more nonsense,so one late evening Eva ran down the back of the unit block and came back with blood on herself ,hands and her clothing all bloody and disappeared into her unit all for a moment all is quiet out front,.and guess the police arrived later and searched all premises and when knocking on Eva's door ,she made out she didnt know anything about a body discovered in one of the garden sheds ,and left her alone.now to think the investigate who is the killer and could it be one of the residents, well any way there was suspected while thee book lady heard still muttered out her balcony and seen a black shadow which had disappeared ,and so thinking nothing she turned off her light and went to bed,and ratchel,the book lady ended up calling g the police on to Eva as more hearing rambling and banging her front door,and when the same police squad turned up to eva,s unit to knock and still made out she was all innocent of the nonsense rambling and instead Eva could be heard that someone had broken into her unit and stole a few valuables and some money ,whether it be true police came back up to ratchels unit door and told her to better stay clear of the old Eva's house and they shall be keeping a watch over,and that was all .and many weeks and no sign of the killer of the body stashed in the garden shed and Eva actually had a visit from mental health team,and suspected her of the accidental murder of Michael Campbell,an ex boyfriend who constantly harassed Eva for money...as all this evidence b y the mental health workers had been done by Eva being under a hypnosis and did not realize she had secretly been able to be hynotise by mental health and when all had been revealed they left eva and went to work to notify the police squad took awhile for the arrest of scraggly hair eva as she had been unwell and not able to face prison,so the mental health,only one turned up to see Eva at home and to make out if she needed any help with some shopping ,and Eva went on and but not to the shops.the worker sneakily driven to a state mental hospital,and Eva screamed and yelled 'you liar ,'and triewd to make a run of an escape but was held down for arriving police and had her hand cuffed and on being assessed in the facility of the state mental hospital and had been locked in a bareroom witj an injection of Valium to help settle her down well just went off to sleep .and all now back at the housing block ratchel didn't had any annoyance at all as Eva had been committed for twenty years of care in the mental facility ward ,and would by then be really old by then and died in the care facility unit of the hospital. and soon ,many months another resident at the housing unit block also started going haywire which was an old man in a wheel chair and each morning Wayne would roll out of his unit and harass neighbours for smokes and no one took notice even when Wayne started yelling and then went back to his unit and waited for his career to turn up to help him to the shop by car ,and so on, even he still continued to harrass people but not danger ways ,kind of normal harassment and so Wayne even started to steal from a local petrol station and no charges were laid out against this old man in the wheelchair but notified only his care worker to just keep an eye on him upon each visitation. and so on and on at that housing block would be more mind madness and but except ratchel the book lady of the night but seeing she keeps well to herself and so shed be safe to lived there,as she refuses by her care workers to stay on any home as preferd to stay with all her books in her housing unit or she would take off to sleep out on street around a covered sheltered street library ,and so on with the mind madness of that housing block of units,.and no one will forget old Eva and her madnesses and who would ever think she was ever capable of murder and put away for her life in the mental health facility ward at the state hospital in a country surburb of border Newcastle nsw.and years more went by and some of tenants ,the few older people had to leave for a nursing home as no choice and some of the others had been arrested and ratchels remained the on ly safe one and on sudden the unit block became a quiet residential block like the way it was meant to be,,and the book lady ratchels continued her night read ,..

May 14, 2024 04:48

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