The Smart Watch Recorded Everything
Language: en

My ex-husband was dead. His wife didn't call to invite me to the funeral. She called to demand that my six-year-old daughter go to the funeral home to sit with her father's body for the overnight vigil. "If his own daughter isn't there to keep watch," she'd sniffed over the phone, "the neighbors will talk. They'll say we're cold-hearted." But I was out of town on a business trip, stuck three states away, so I had no choice but to beg my ex-husband's sister, Claire, to watch over her. It wasn't until two in the morning that my daughter's smart watch buzzed with a fragmented, static-heavy…