The Execution

Gavin Paul
3 min readDec 13, 2022

You don’t really see the body drop. The frame is tight, claustrophobic. There is a persistent wobble in the grainy cell phone footage, material record of unknown hand. Many bodies in a small concrete structure, dimly lit. The man with the grey beard and black hair is quietly defiant until the very end, eyes flaring beneath his sinister black brows. Everyone else is wearing black masks.

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Gavin Paul

English Professor. Author of "Conspiracy of One," a small book of short stories, and “The Coward," a collection of essays. amazon.com/author/gavinpaul