Here is a small taste of the story "Ties That Bind" from the book Falling Into Place: An Anthology of Short Stories.
Tommy McCabe closed his eyes tightly as he washed the blood from his hands.
Lately it seemed as if he couldn’t get them clean enough, washing them dozens of times a day. Tommy wondered if he was developing obsessive compulsive disorder or a conscience. Not that either option was particularly appealing. One would get him an appointment with a shrink, the other a date with the undertaker. After all, getting his hands dirty, and bloody, was part of his job.
Tommy “Two Fists” McCabe has been a career criminal for over two decades. With his partner, Salvatore “Gravedigger” DiSalvo, Tommy currently “fixes” problems for the Manelli Crime Family . The two men have worked together for almost nine years and are incredibly adept at their jobs, but nobody wants a fixer with a guilty conscience, or a mental disorder. It’s the kind of problem that’s usually handled by a bullet in the back of your head, so Tommy had decided to keep his issues a secret, even from his long-time partner.
Despite his predilection against it , Tommy had already washed his hands four times in the last hour. His “condition” always worsened during times of stress and his current predicament was the biggest clusterfuck he’d ever seen. Needless to say, Tommy didn’t like the situation one bit. “This day has been shit from the word go,” he muttered to himself as he dried his hands with the paper towels nearby.
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