I walk into fire, surrounded by trees rumbling in flames, but I feel no heat. I tread down the path, fire licking at my arms, ashes fluttering upwards into the night sky like millions of grey moths. The path ends at a single tree – a white birch of dead branches unaffected by the fire around it. A picture frame hangs on the birch, but I can barely see it through the smoke. Closer and closer, the image in the picture frame becomes clearer. Suddenly, a whirlwind lifts the smoke and I see the picture – the portrait of Jesus Christ upside down.
My feet are stuck. I look down, my legs knee-deep in blood. Strands of long brown hair and severed body parts float in the red swamp.
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The Online Profile of a Serial Killer
Mystery / ThrillerThis is the rule. Whenever you read that a story is true, it is always and inevitably untrue. But in this case, however, everything you read here is true. The burnt remains for Rachel Amina Darwish were discovered in Algonquin Park in Ontario, Canad...
