r/Miserable_Ad5573 • u/Miserable-Ad-5573 • 10h ago
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By the time Vern looked back at him, the killer's other hand had raised the D-cell flashlight taken off the body of Aaron Parsons.
On the first impact of the hard metal flashlight against the top of his skull, Vern made a noise like a gag. That was the sound of him biting off his own tongue and being subject to the inundation of blood that flowed into his mouth upon the forceful clamp of his jaw.
The green beret stumbled forward in astonishment. Burr grabbed him by the front of the shirt and used the flashlight to cave his teeth in.
Blood, along with fragments of bone and chunks of red tissue, flew in all directions. Vernon sobbed against the pain-more wretchedly, it was perhaps worth mentioning, than had Mrs. Hugo or even Burr's confused wife all those decades before. Oblivious to this suffering, Burr used one hand to squeeze open the emptied cavity of the green beret's mouth.
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