Deadly News: A Thriller

by Zooey Smith

  All you can focus on is the writing on the wall, in dark red:

  Let he who deceives be himself deceived. And cast him into the pit, where he shall languish for eternity in solitude.

  Below this, on the pillow you share, is a folder.

  It opens easily, for there is no tape. Inside is not even a single sheet of paper. The folder itself has a single line of writing, and then a signature of two letters:

  This is just the beginning.

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