(Page 1 of 2) The Harmony Of Lunacy by Richard Ridyard
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SUMMARY: This is the opening story of a chilling collection of 8 stories. Each one is a piece of the puzzle and it isn't until the last one where you witness the bigger picture.The Harmony Of Lunacy
By Richard Ridyard
A Police detective comes in while an autopsy is going on.
'So was it as we suspected?' asks the detective.
'Yes the victim has marks on thier wrists and shins from the restraints. They died from the gunshot to the chest. Have you caught the killer detective?' asks the physician.
'No the killer was no where to be seen and there are no leads so far.'
'So the killer is still out there. Out there to kill again.'
'It won't be long before the killer is caught though that I promise you.' states the detective.
It was early one summers morning, Sarah and her boyfriend David went to town to buy some ornaments for their new house they have just moved into. They had searched for over an hour and still hadn't bought anything. Then when they went past an old antiques shop something caught Sarah's eye. It was a small, black, shiny musical box with an intricate silver heart pattern inlaid on the lid.
"Look" said Sarah pointing to the box.
"What" asked David not really paying much attention.
"There" said Sarah tapping on the window as she points.
"Come on let's have a closer look." Sarah says with enthusiasm. She pulls David inside the shop and to the musical box. Sarah had been charmed by the delicate detail on it, and was pleased when she looked at the price tag, as it was only £5. She opened it, and it played the main theme to the opera The Merry Widow. She gleefully decided to purchase the musical box.
When the couple arrived back home later that day, David suddenly called for her attention.
"What's that?" he asked, looking around.
"What's what?" Sarah replied, without paying much attention, until she heard it too.
It was clearly the chimes of The Merry Widow, but Sarah could not understand why they could hear the tune, as the unusual little box wasn't in the room, it defiantly upstairs in the bedroom where she had placed it. Sarah went upstairs to check. She found the box on her dressing table where she had proudly positioned it minutes earlier, and picked it up. Opening it, she heard the chimes begin. She snapped closed the lid, silencing the music, and placed it back on the dresser.
When Sarah went to work on the following day, she could not get the haunting song out of her mind, it had also been relentlessly replaying in her mind as she tried to sleep last night, and stranger still neither could her boyfriend. David worked in a Bank, and he first noticed the spectral melody as the boss was talking to him in the office. The chimes in his head became such a distraction, that David couldn't concentrate on his work. All he could hear was the accursed tune, and it tormented him to distraction, so much so, that he had to go home. As he drove home, he was so affected, that he wondered if someone in the Bank had somehow spiked his coffee with some hallucinogenic drug.
When he got home he had a terrible shock for there was Sarah laying on the floor in the living room with a gun shot wound in her chest that was bleeding heavily. Sarah's skirt was over her hips, Sarah was motionless with a look of abject horror on her face.
"Oh no oh dear lord no please no!" David yells in disbelief.
"Why? I loved you I was going to propose and now..." David breaks down and starts crying.
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