The Cardboard Box: Karma Houdini

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Cardboard Box: Karma Houdini
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60                     
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Named for the TV Tropes term for a character that escapes punishment.

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“Jim sent us, Sarah,” Mary said brightly. “He was hanged today.”

Alec Fairbairn nodded, staring at the transfixed woman to whom they’d just appeared. “Yet the one who turned him against his blameless wife escaped punishment.”

“Until now,” Mary said, and her eyes glowed white.

*

“Bedlam for this one,” said the constable as the shrieking straightjacketed woman was dragged out.

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Appropriate justice for this time of year.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Ghosts! Boo!

[debriswoman]

Elegantly unsettling.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Truly horrific ^^"

Though to be honest, I think Sarah got her punishment in the canon story. She seemed haunted by what she'd done as soon as she heard about the ears and understood her sister was dead. I pity her having to live with that kind of guilt and I can see her ending up in an asylum, as you suggest.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Happy Halloween.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Seemed a good theme for this time of year.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

End of October, the story called for something appropriate.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Happy Halloween!

This could very well be Sarah's mind haunting her, the way Jim Browner keeps seeing his victims.

[alafaye]

Haha!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Boo.