Shred of Evidence

Coming awake into the darkness of a blindfold was shocking, and not a little disorientating. Jake Burrows could feel his heart pounding right up into his throat, the vibrations of real terror. He swallowed, trying to quell the pulse of it and with several deep breaths its rate did begin to slow.

He caught a grunt of laughter across the floor, and the creak of a chair followed by the heavy movement of someone rising to their feet. A big man, by the sound of it.

“Looks like our guest has finally decided to put in an appearance.”

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Billy O’Callaghan, from Cork, Ireland, works as a freelance journalist. His fiction has appeared in the USA in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Elysian Fields Baseball Quarterly and War Journal, and in Ireland in such publications as Southword, Ireland’s Own, The Big Issue, and the Holly Bough, among others. He has won the George A. Birmingham Award and the Lunch Hour Stories Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Francis McManus Award, the Sean O’Faolain Award, and the Faulkner/Wisdom Award.