Creative Writing: The Sniper

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His opposer stands triumphantly as he thought to have succeeded in his mission. “How ill mannered is he?” the sniper murmured to himself with a devious smile. Standing tall in all black; blazer, bow tie, socks, Balmoral shoes, with the button up also to be corresponding. He appears seemingly endless like a black shadowed character made up to startle young children. The opposing sniper moves as if he is the actual Slender Man. As he stands as a vacuous man, I conjure my scheme to vanish him. The sniper ejects his revolver to replenish his bullets. The task will be in someway strenuous, but unvarying. He knew that he on had one other qualifying weapon to make his foe extinct. The platinum, silver barreled revolver, with every piece shinning

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