The guillotine
Philosophy of the knife
Short story by Henning Haupts
The book:
The Hatchet
French Guiana. In a prison camp in Cayenne, a convict awaits execution. Death by guillotine. Among his fellow inmates, the question keeps coming up. Does one notice the knife in the neck, does it tickle about.
The author:
Henning Haupts
born in 1959 in Germany. Lives in Rheydt, North Rhine-Westphalia.
The idea of telling stories and turning them into books came to me almost overnight.
My great sympathies are with short stories. Entertaining stories for on the way are important to me.
On my site you will find links to short stories and pictures.
2. Edition, 2021
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Henning Haupts
Bruchstraße 33
41238 Mönchengladbach
Table of Contents
1. In court
2. Guyana
3. Cell 17
4. Everyday life
5. Execution
6. Wait and see
1. In court
Three times the wooden gavel struck the judge's desk. Slowly, silence entered this small courtroom. The overcrowded hall, the narrowness, the unbearable heat became the torment of all present.
"Defendant, rise".
He meant me. I stood up. All the visitors in the hall with me. You could have heard a pin drop. Only the asthmatic breathing of my public defender and the defective rotating ceiling fan disturbed the silence.
The judge raised his head, facing the jury.