Fatal Affair
Fiction Shorts word of the day: Meeting
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1 min readMay 13, 2024
“Was your wife having an affair, Andrew?” the detective asks.
Andrew looks at the policeman in astonishment, unable to fathom the question. His wife’s been murdered, what right does he have to ask such a question?
“Was she meeting someone last night?” the detective persists.
Andrew continues to stare at this interloper who’s adamantly pressing every one of his buttons. How dare he?
Before he knew what thoughts were running through his brain, Andrew raises his hands, placing them around the detective’s neck and begins to throttle him in earnest, just as he’d done to his wife the night before.
This Drabble has been written in response to Fiction Shorts word of the day linked below.
Please enjoy this Drabble, written by Karen Schwartz.
