Nero stared at the bleeding man bound to the worktable. The man grunted and moaned pitifully, his sobs choked by a ball-gag fastened around his mouth. He was missing fingers in both his hands. Scratches, welts, and bruises covered his naked torso.
Nero looked at the poll results on an encrypted website, ‘We have a winner!’
He switched on a blow torch. The bound man started screaming.
‘How much money you’d have made with this torture website of yours!’ Nero said, ‘Now, you get to go like all your victims. Well, at least you’ll die doing what you loved eh?’
Written for Friday Fictioneers hosted by Rochelle Wisoff – Fields. This week’s image is from Douglas M. MacIlroy. To read other stories on this prompt, do head over here.
The biter bit, he got what he deserved, grisly end, grisly tale.
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Nero burns. Well done thriller & horror in short.
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Everyone involved is diminished in this horrible morality tale worthy of inclusion in the original Grimm’s tales.
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Oh my!
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Wicked. 😊
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Sounds like there is more than one horrible man here. Is the current torturer getting ideas from the first one’s website or is this his own grisly copycat poll? Beware the person with a righteous cause. Talk about stooping to the level of those you despise!
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ts good for the goose shall we say? Excellent tale..
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Though the man deserved it, I don’t think I can condone the actions…
and I just imagine those people voting on the winners…
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Horrific things, done in the dark but brought to light. In the end, he got what he gave. A grisly tale indeed.
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OMG! How horrific! I might not be able to unsee that…
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Some poetic justice being delivered to the perpetrator. Only rarely such a situation happens.
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Gruesome and ghoulish, but I guess he really did deserve it.
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Grisly comeuppance – deservedly
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Good grief! Are there really such things? I felt very sorry for him—and then I didn’t.
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Pretty gruesome, but it sounds like he was asking for it… live by the sword and die by it and all…
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Karma has come back to haunt him. a bit gruesome , Varad.
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Yikes! Gruesome stuff.
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Dear Varad,
Comeuppance indeed. Sounds like the man deserved what he got. The last line made me laugh out loud. (Dark, but funny).
Shalom,
Rochelle
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If you can’t take it yourself, don’t do it! Bye!
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That’s a dark, dark place you’ve gone. Well crafted.
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Sometimes you just have to break open that padlock! Thanks, Penny
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A fitting revenge? Gruesome but fun! 🙂
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a grisly moral tale
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