PISTOL

 

How many times do you have to read the Ad :

PISTOL

 Like New

Used Once

 

...until you understand it’s gravity?

Did it’s significance just dawn on you? Were you not aware, that, that one-time, was all it took?

A kill shot at extremely close range, all arranged by a stranger, whose blood may still be on the trigger.

But it intrigues you; USED ONCE. Who’s to know?

So you call the ‘lister and arrange a meet.

Man of three hundred pounds turns up, with the piece holstered. He eyes you with caution, as is his right…but you are equally dubious.

You do a little dance, to :  

WHAT YOU GOT?

WHAT YOU WANT?

Finally, he asks to examine the piece. It’s his right as the buyer. He took control of it in a casual, but clumsy, manner, which reeked of a ‘novice’ trying impress the pro.

But that’s all right, as long as it wasn’t pointed his way. Hell a gun like this is often handed down from novice to novice. Everyone likes to think it has only been used once.

As he waited, he watched the novice handling the piece, aiming at ghosts, and thought to himself

“I will not be surprised to see this gun again.”

It only takes one.

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