The Perfect Hit: From "Short Cuts", a short story collection

In a busy downtown train station, a troubled woman leaves her morning train to walk to her job.

Hunting her from the shadows is a legendary but currently fuming and frustrated hitman, who is running late for the shot of his target’s life…

A racing and riotous short story about love, death and the unexpected. Ca 2,990 words
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Erik Boman is a writer from Oxford. He is the author of "Short Cuts" and was awarded with the A.M. Heath literary prize in 2011.