Vagabonds: Anthology of the Mad Ones Vagabonds Vol. 3 | Page 30

Now, he decided, was the time to pull down the final curtain. “I am my
most desperate character,” he mumbled and went out to buy a bottle of rat
poison.
He had read enough of ‘Forensic Procedures for Writers’ to make an
embarrassing mistake. He made a generous cheese sandwich and sat down
to relish his last dinner at his writing desk. A full stomach with
unsaturated fat also ruled out the possibility of vomiting the poison.
To add a final macabre touch to his plight, he wrote furiously for a few
minutes, and hit the ‘send’ button. Task over, he happily tilted the brown
bottle till nothing was left inside.
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