Psychological Crime: The Tortoise and the Hare

One day, a rabbit and a tortoise raced in the forest. The rabbit mocked the tortoise for being slow, and the tortoise said, "One day, I'll beat you." The rabbit sneered, "Then let's race right now!" The tortoise agreed, and the rabbit shouted, "The race starts now!"

The rabbit raced ahead while the tortoise crawled with all its might. Before long, there was a great distance between them. The rabbit thought the race was too easy, so it decided to take a nap. It smugly figured that even after waking up, the tortoise still wouldn't catch up. As for the tortoise, it kept crawling without stopping. It crawled and crawled until it reached the rabbit, by which point it was exhausted. But the tortoise thought that if it rested like the rabbit, it would lose the race, so it kept crawling. By the time the rabbit woke up, the tortoise had already reached the finish line.

Excerpt from "The Tortoise and the Hare"

The third novel in the "Crime Psychology" series!