Ian Stevens
6 ways of looking at a bloodstain
(undergrad creative writing: literary fiction)1 Stan and Dan’s carpet cleaning van It was too late for just water. Probably too late for the peroxide mixture too. Stanley had read that making a paste from salt and cold water might work, maybe he would give that a try. He’d cleaned many carpets but never one so grotesquely stained. A brown-black mass was crusted to the fibers of the carpet, sticking them together in knotted clumps. Spreading from the coagulated pool in every direction were little hoof prints scattered so franticly that…Ian Stevens12 min read