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Guy Belleranti writes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, puzzles and humor for both adults and children from his home in southern Arizona. A few of the places his work has appeared include Woman’s World, The Eternal Night, Futures Mysterious Anthology and the LA Times Kids’ Reading Room. A number of his short stories are also available at Fictionwise.com. His homepage on the web is: http://www.authorsden.com/guybelleranti

Tables Turned by Guy Belleranti

 

He pulls the wire

From beneath his coat

Raises it high

And forms a garrote.

 

Slowly, surely

He moves in to kill.

His target turns

And he feels a chill.

 

For in her hands

Are a badge and gun.

“That’s right,” she says,

“Your killing is done.”

 

Guy Belleranti © 2007