The Nights
Epilogue
Two weeks later...
The campus had just begun to forget the incidents that happened in those 2 days. It was never easy for anybody to recover from such incidents, especially because nothing happened after that. Students were now scared and weren't willing to go out of hostel alone. They had no reason for them to be singled out but they don't know why J was killed either. Nothing was reasonable for them, nothing they believed in. They stopped trusting their thickest of friends and have now started moving in units of 4, at least.
7.45 PM
There was only one person in the TV room. He aged in mid-thirties and was seated in a half broken chair of the last row of chairs in the TV room of the boys hostel. He was reading a newspaper that hadn't been opened since morning. It read...
No update on the 'half-a-dozen' killings.
Reported by Sanjay Srivastava.
Hyderabad, India.In the mind-boggling crime story at Gachibowli-Hyderabad, police is yet to recover any clues. Two weeks back 6 cold-blooded murders took place within a span of 48 hrs, leaving no trace behind. Police believes this might not have been done by students as they would not have had the guts to be so calm this long.
Students and Faculty of the institution are heavily depressed by these happenings, and 3 senior faculty members have announced voluntary retirements a week after the incidents. The fate of this otherwise remarkable institution's future growth and the affect these incidents would have on the upcoming admissions for UG and PG students is unimaginable. The top-management and the state government has unconditionally granted high-security premises till the culprit gets caught or the case is solved otherwise.
Crime experts believe, however, that such high-security zones or security checking from time to time wouldn't aid in identifying the killer. They say "He is going to be dormant now. He wouldn't come out to public. He has no reason to do that. He is such an intelligent criminal that he wouldn't make a mistake now. It is just not worth trying for him, but as a formality we have to do all we can do." Another group has a different opinion, they say "It might be more than one person actually, you know. One or more performing the killings and the other(s) cleaning up the mess. But for this to be the case they must be experts on forensics which is least likely for these young students. Either way we are only guessing, we don't have any evidence to back up."
This case has nailed everybody down, from Cyberabad Police to Forensic experts, everybody is confused and are going no where in their investigations. Though, on paper none of them are willing to give up the case, mentally they all know they have already given up on this peculiar case that has not a single clue or evidence or motive so far.
Somebody somewhere must have been grinning...
After reading the news story the guy sighed a bit and said "Too bad!".
"Yeah, too bad", said a voice from behind. And before the guy could turn back towards the voice, the person was leaving.
The mysterious person had turned back, walked out of the TV room and gave a wicked smile to himself... It was "C".
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Update: Apparently, all the readers were a little confused after they read this post. Some thought they were not confused, though, inside they were. For the benefit of those who want to know what actually happened to all the characters in the story, I would suggest them to go through the comments section of Epilogue. You will find the authors point of view of the story: The Real Ending!.
22 comments:
WTF do u want to say... is it C? Come on....y C? K and C are close friends!!!
(or)
Did C kill all thez people because for this - "....3 senior faculty members have announced voluntary retirements a week after the incidents..." such that his guide(??) could run away from the campus and he can continue his research peacefully?
hahahahahaha.....
the second reason seems to be plausible :D
Finally you C that It was C..
But Why C? is this?
Raul bhai.. pura pada... ending kya??? C kyun.. ab ye mat bolna wo sycho hai sabko maar diya.. warna mai tujhe mar dunga..
K ka sachmuch me story bana dunga.. aur is baar bhi kaatil C hi hoga.. C=chans.spy
btw news reports awesome
I feel this post was quite redundant. I was expecting the murderer to be revealed as well as a reason which could back up the 6 murders.
Without us knowing the motive, it disappoints a bit. You may go against the trend to post a "Post-Epilogue" for this chapter. That could sort things out.
Keep writing... :)
u cant end it like dis dude...i cudnt believe this is hw u ended it...
I am willing to spend a few hours reading the feedback on this post. I want to know what you felt about such an ending. Good/Bad/Nothing whatever it is.
I will definitely answer all the questions raised in the comments and put them in this same comments section. :)
Cheers.
First things first...may such an incident remain in the pages of fiction only...
Like everyone, I felt this post became a sort of anti-climax to the super-cold atmos u had left the readers in the previous post....
All in all...a chilling story, and could be made into a short skit/play...
I can only think of one possible senario... in your next post(next story possibly) you explain the reasons left behind in this story and continue with a new story ....
any ways .. its good except the reasoning part... :P
I am expecting a "very strong" reason behind the murders...i hope you will not disappoint me..
nice endimg man except for the reasoning man....
hoping to see another mind boggling story soon...
hi..
after reading the "the other night" ....
i thought of one of the following to be the possible endings as..
" C should be the killer as he alone is the one left out. The reason which i thought are
a. It was C who was been stopping K from going to police after the murder of M.
b. the other reason can be he might a lover or had crush on one of the girls and he didn't liked them to think of other person.
c. The last reason, can be becoz he is a psycho and did this to show of his talent ( like the one in movie SAW )
by the way.. that was a nice fiction and it would have been better if u have given the reasonings properly..
nice dude.. GOOD WORK
I hope everyone had a really nice time reading my earlier posts and I think I know that each one of you is pissed-off at the way I ended the story. I really think that I have made no errors in the way I brought this story to you. Even this ending piece is a very good one and I hope to convince you after you read this comment. :-)
I would like to repeat, there is going to be no change in the story, I am not going to take any inputs from outside on this story. This is what I had dreamt of writing: a piece of fiction as complex as this. People should be confused even after the curtains fall, they should walk home still surprised and if they think long enough they should get to conclude what the writer had thought of.
On why I ended like this, I am trying to explain a bit in this comment, but before you read the following, would you please read this epilogue post again ? Thanks.
Author's Explanation
C was K's closest friend, the only one left with him still in the campus. K died in seriously tragic circumstances and just before he died he was upset at J's demise since he thought he is holding the key to the truth the police were looking for in J's murder case.
But then K was murdered in unbelievable circumstances (remember the two girls were also killed meanwhile!), along with SI Rawat and constable Raju. At this point C had lost control of his faculties, he had already lost everything he knew. In the final post, when C was looking at the guy reading the newspaper, C was already insane. When he read the newspaper (if he did!) or when he repeated the guys words "Too bad!", C wasn't mentally capable of understanding anything. C was just repeating what he just heard and walked out of the room and smiled for reasons unknown to him.
"Who killed them all" or "the motive behind the murders", is still not known and would never be. We never had a clue or two to pursue the truth!
I would say that we made an assumption. I would further say that you wanted us to make that assumption. If I am correct, you wanted us to react like that.
Nice thinking indeed. You managed to fool me (the least) into thinking that C was the murderer. Very nice.
I want more...
Come on... you fooled us!!! But I am going to say for myself that C is the murderer. Siraj pointed out some good endings... I will go with his option(c).
C is a "psycho"... because his guide pissed him a lot. This is the ending..that's it.. no more comments!!
Anyways good ending!!! :)
aaaah..... twist indeed :D
and yea, i second chandu bhai's comment! Really nice news posts, but i guess having crawled through any number of news articles you would've imbibed the style naturally. :P
Again a little more clarification for my friends who gave me such wonderful feedback in comments and chats. And indeed everyone else should know.
I believe that once the readers are at the 'epilogue', they shouldn't be made to assume a lot of things. They already naturally make a lot of assumptions. So I felt there should be only one assumption that each one of the reader should be making while he/she reads the epilogue. And I tried my best to motivate readers towards the assumption that "C is the murderer", and I was successful.
As rightly pointed out by Romanch and Sai, I had only tried to fool the readers a bit. I had assumed it would create only a bit of satisfaction after the correct interpretation (without any assumptions!) is understood. Of course, if somebody isn't too happy about it, unfortunately, I am not in a position to do anything. Just remember, "Crime is pulsating, exciting and spine wrecking at times, but most of all in practice it is the most difficult one to solve."
Why certain endings (suggested by readers) cannot be the ending of this story:
1) Sai says "C killed them all so that he could avoid his advisor and to perform his research independently and happily". Sounds interesting to some guys but do you see how close it comes to reality. After the first post was done, I decided that I want to keep away real incidents from enering this story. Even otherwise this would have been a routine ending, right ?
2)Siraj claimed 3 possible reasons for "C being the murderer". All of which are plausible for the very reasons they are. The first reason is the simplistic view of the story, it would need a lot of other assumptions or a lot of new content in the story. The second reason siraj suggests is more interesting. I would love to see it from that point of view, but sadly that again has to extend a lot of story (and of course this thought never came to me at all). The third reason siraj suggests is of "C being a psycho killer". Anybody who knows Siraj and Vinayak like we do would definitely say it is expected from them. THey both just love psycho movies (oops! that was a secret). But just as interesting as this line of story might sound, I am not sure anybody would have approved of such an ending. And how many of you 'did not' think of this sort of ending? By the way, look at what Chandan and Sarat have to say. They would have become psychopath killers themselves to kill me if I would have written the story in those lines. :D
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed writing this story and I would like to thank each one of you that has helped me in the process with your feedback. I will comeback with a fresh story and I hope I could keep the audience alive again. Thank you, one and all.
Special mention: Romanch. Dude, but for your insistence I wouldn't have posted the first chapter and hence I wouldn't have thought about writing the next chapters at all. Thank you very much for pushing me of the edge!. :-)
Thats great...
Something that no one has expected.
It's always good to have something away from usual thinking..
Frankly speakin... I really liked it..
Awaiting for your next Short story with unusual/unexpected ending.
Great One Buddy...Keep going..
hi Raul... my first comment (in public) on ur post ...
1. I am very much impressed with the narrating style.
2. Introducing "news reports" in between the narration was very good and for me it was a completely new.
3. I am abit disappointed with the comments section. I enjoyed the story the way it is. No after analysis and all.
All the best for your future posts!! :) Keep writing.
characters intro అదిరింది.
మధ్యమధ్యలో పంచ్ లు అదిరాయి..
K గాడే timepass కి murder చెసాడేమో అనుకున్నా.. కాని వెరైటీ గా వాడ్ని కూడా లేపడం అదిరింది...
అన్యం పుణ్యం ఎరగని పోలీసులని కూడా లేపడం అదిరింది....
campus లో వున్న అందరు చచ్చారు. ఇంక C గాడే మిగిలాడు, so C గాడే చేసుంటాడు, ఎలా చేసాడో చూద్దాం అనుకునేలొపే కధని ముగించావ్. అదరలేదనుకున్నా.....
కాని నీ కమెంట్ తో కధని పూర్తి చెయ్యడం అదిరింది......
ఇది సరే... ఇంతకీ చచ్చిన profs లో K గారి ముద్దుల సైకో prof వున్నాడా ?
Well, I am kind of disappointed with the way the story lost its charm towards the end. It ended rather abruptly in my view... Whether or not we know the murderer, i feel it ended abruptly. However, for the first attempt, its a decent one..keep going...
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