Snapped

A Short Story

Suchard is a wedding-and-baby photographer whose only ambition is to take better portraits. When an old client Rainer comes to him with a commission to film Rainer’s own murder, albeit faked, Suchard is understandably reluctant. However, the fee Rainer offers is impossible to refuse and Suchard finds himself in the pump-room of Rainer’s house, his camera lens protruding through a hole in the wall and a gun in his pocket. By the pool, Rainer’s wife has raised a heavy earthenware mortar over her husband’s head. What could possibly go wrong? This story first appeared in the collection Mango and Sticky Rice and Other Stories.