A Killing Rain and Other Stories By Reid Laurence - Paid

As the author of the book, I wanted to write a little about just what the story means to me. The lead character is of course, not the kind of person you'd want to know - at least, not for very long. He is a combination of killers that I read about before I began the work and some of his murderous habits would be repellent to any normal person, but as I began to write the story out, several questions in my mind took hold... will Raymond (the killers first name), pay for his hideous crimes here, in this life? Will he pay in the next? Perhaps he falls through the cracks of justice - manmade or otherwise - and never pays at all, while some of the lives he touches through his deeds become wrecked - as I tried to show in a passage when Raymond meets the only surviving member of a once happy family whose burden it becomes to spend each day in living hell, a hell provided by Raymond, who meets this man coincidentally on an elevated train and thinks nothing of the result of his vile actions. This irony I faced myself with became part of the momentum for writing the story and although I've raised these questions I cannot, in all truth to myself and to the public at large, say that I can answer them as well. I hope that many of you have more luck with these resolutions than I have had, and I invite you to read the work and to arrive at your own personal conclusions. You can visit my web site if you like at: www.reidlaurence.piczo.com. Thank you, Reid Laurence.