Room no 348 Mystery: Man Smashed to Death With No Major External Injuries?

Heart, stomach, and ribs broke, but the man died with a burning cigarette in his hands!

Aravind Balakrishnan
ILLUMINATION

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Susie Fleniken was pacing anxiously around her room. The previous day, her husband, Greg Fleniken, had checked into Room no 348 of the MCM Elegante Hotel in Beaumont, Texas. But she hasn’t heard from him this morning.

Greg, a seasoned landman, dealing with mineral rights on private property for gas and oil corporations, used to travel a lot and check into many hotels. But he never missed his routine-placing a call to his wife the following day, except that day.

Susie kept trying his cellphone, but he wasn’t picking up. She called Greg’s colleagues and learned that he hadn’t turned up for work. The co-workers then went to the MCM Elegante hotel to find out the truth and opened his room with the help of the hotel manager.

And there, Greg Fleniken was dead on the floor, bent forward and down, with his face facing the carpet. There was a little wet spot on his pajamas near the crotch area. A burned cigarette was neatly tucked between the fingers of his left hand. His skin color had turned grayish-blue.

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Aravind Balakrishnan
ILLUMINATION

Introvert or Shy? Not sure. Bibliophile or Cine-buff? Both. Nethead or Story-writer? Still dunno. All I know is I want to write to live and I live to write.