A Beheading

A very short story - it could almost be considered a fragment of a story.
It is almost an internal monologue - the characters thoughts alone, except there are some mumbled words to his captors.

There is no context offered to the story - except what the reader can weave around the basic information provided. Perhaps a journalist, abducted in the middle of the night from his home. Bound, forced into a car, set up in front of a camera. The outcome is obvious - the title of the story.

No explanation, no background, just a gruesome result.

In the space of a few short minutes of reading, the reader is offered pace, a foreboding atmosphere, a shared confusion, darkness, emotion and a rawness.

4 stars.