(PHOTO CREDIT: YARNSPINNERR)
“So what do you have to say in your defense Herr Eichmann?”
The man in the witness box stood ramrod straight and remorseless. With the contours of a derisive grin slowly taking shape, he replied, “they are durable and soft to step on.”
The prosecutor’s rage now was in full bloom. Turning an incendiary red, he hollered, “soft to step on? Have you counted the bloody pairs? There are more than…. a thousand…. a half-thousand” The gravity of the accused’s crime made him stutter and stammer.
“1254 to be precise.” Eichmann was icy calm personified. “Emaciated skins don’t complain.”
Pandemonium reigned in the courtroom.
(WORD COUNT: 104)
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14 comments
Ghoulish and macabre! Well done.
A portrait of evil.
Oh gosh! That’s eerie and sadistic and quite well-written lol
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Sorry, I don’t understand it. I’m quite sure it is a great story!
The footwear is actually made out of the skins of prisoners. 627 people have been made to pay with their pain in order to complete this awful collection.
Oh gosh, that sounds horrible!
Man may have actually resorted to such macabre and inhuman acts.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-lampshade-that-drives-its-owners-mad-strange-truth-behind-20th-centurys-most-disturbing-object-2117357.html
Thank you for sending me that link but frankly, I don’t think I can stomach those barbaric acts!
Yikes! How horrible. Nicely written though.
A piece of powerful writing,
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Oooh, that was brutal, and quite imaginative I must say.
Nasty! I almost feel guilty for enjoying your story!
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