Revenge So Sweet (Digital)

No coffee this morning. She doesn’t need it.

Iris hasn’t slept properly since the murder of her husband, Lucas. Grief hollowed her out. Rage rebuilt her. When the life insurance cheque cleared, she quit her hospital job and devoted herself to one thing:

Revenge.

Seven gang members.
Seven starting locations.
Seven clues.
One million dollars.

From her home office, Iris watches seven live camera feeds flicker across large monitors. Every angle covered. Every movement tracked. Months of meticulous planning have led to this single day. The rules are simple: find the clues, reach the second location by 6:00 p.m., and deliver one man alive — the Skyline Blood known as Mickey Dreads.

What they don’t know?

There are only six clues for seven men.

And no one survives the second round.

The abandoned maximum-security prison waiting twenty minutes outside the city is more than atmospheric staging. It is a sealed tomb. Manual timers will lock the doors. Hydrogen sulphide gas will flood the building. Whether they hand over Mickey Dreads or turn on one another, the outcome is the same.

Dead men.

As the race begins, chaos erupts across Iris’s screens. Shouting. Gravel crunching. Guns flashing at belts. Among them stands DeShawn — the elusive leader of the Eight Trey Gangster Crips, a ghost in San Diego’s underworld.

But DeShawn isn’t just another player.

He’s part of the plan.

Dark, razor-sharp, and psychologically chilling, Revenge So Sweet is a short thriller about grief turned surgical, vengeance executed with clinical precision, and the terrifying calm of a woman who has already decided who lives and who dies.

Because sometimes justice isn’t blind.

Sometimes it watches from seven screens… and waits.

If you love morally complex antiheroines, twisted game scenarios, and high-stakes psychological suspense, this short story delivers a cold, calculated punch you won’t see coming.

Revenge is best served cold.

And Iris has set the timer.