End of Story

by A.J. Finn

“What bothers me about Trapp, you ask?” Nicky had not asked. “It isn’t the murders he committed. It’s his damn quotes! Oh, he cites his sources. But I don’t want to know what Sherlock Holmes thought! I want to know what Sebastian Trapp thinks!” “‘A quotation for everything saves original thinking,’” observes Nicky. “Beautifully said!” “Dorothy Sayers said it.

“Gossips everywhere. There is an expression: moral indignation is envy with a halo.”

we had a cat called Tigress. Woke up one morning, she’d flown the coop overnight. The cat, not my wife. Never saw her again. Then a year later I woke up and my wife’d flown the coop overnight. Never saw her again, either.” He sighs. “I really miss that cat.”