Reputation for Extermination
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Reputation for Extermination It was a sharp November morning and the sun had not yet risen. The lengthy pier was dimly lit and slippery wet from the previous night's frost. The calm water gently lapped at the footings of the pier, revealing nothing about the two men waiting patiently for the other to speak. They were the only people on the pier. Joe Murphy had arrived two hours earlier, unable to spend another minute in the same house as his wife as she lay in bed, oblivious to what she had driven him to. Stan Hartley, staying true to his reputation, reached his destination fashionably late but just in time to witness Joe quivering at the end of the pier. He supposed it wasn't every day this happened to most people, it was just that people required his services. Though he made money from it, it was more of a pastime...

