Three Inch Nails (ePub)

THREE INCH NAILS

Evil is reborn in the shape of a hammer and nails!

An old box of metal nails tells a sinister story that begins in 1972 in La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mariana Perez, a kind, innocent fourteen-year-old girl, is fascinated by woodworking and construction nails that she collects from her uncle's hardware store. In the solitude of her small apartment, she develops a close connection with the nails, and they become her companion in misfortune.

One day, at her uncle's store, she overhears a bizarre conversation between two physicians about a psychiatric patient who had killed another. Although very young to comprehend all the medical terminology used by the doctors to describe the patient's death, Mariana learns the truth from her mother's medical book.

Mariana's obsession with nails and medical books eventually turns into murder. Whenever mean people hurt her, she kills them ingeniously, one by one, and no one suspects that a sweet fourteen-year-old girl can kill people.

Thinking that living illegally in a country with strict laws could end her unstoppable desire to kill, Mariana moves to the United States of America. Still, her thoughts of killing more people become real, and secrecy ultimately turns her life into a horrific nightmare that consumes her whole existence. She begs God to help her stop killing, but He doesn't listen to her desperate supplication. As she grows older, she finally realizes that her goodness is engulfed, more rapidly than she imagined, by a psychological monster too hard to defeat.

Mariana wasn't born evil; life made her so. Seeking a satisfactory explanation of why she kills people might get her a way to stop it and redeem herself from her sins.