The Note
1 min readAug 1, 2018
She woke up. Her mouth was parched, so she reached for the glass of water on the bedside table. The glow of the alarm clock boldly displayed 3 am.
As she set the glass down, she saw a handwritten note on his pillow that read:
Don’t worry, I took care of the body.
She sighed.
Even after 28 years of marriage, she still had to put up with the stale humor of a third-shift on-call coroner.