The Drunk Man's Murder: A Short Story

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It was June 6, 1989. A man was lying on his sofa at exactly 12 o’clock midnight. He was drinking Liquor by the bottle. He was drunk as ever when a man in all black bursted through the house window and pulled out a handgun with a suppressor dangling on the end of it. “Wait a minute” said the drunk man ”let me say one-” That was it. The man in all black had pulled the trigger and vanished. No one had heard the shot because of the suppressor on the pistol. The question was, why did the murderer bother to screw a suppressor on the pistol when he had a such loud break-in with the sound of glass shattering?

It was the next day when the Investigator investigated the crime scene. He was confused about how nobody heard the gunshot when John Smith

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