Melomiri

Wake Up And Die Again

Language: en

I was lying in bed, the heavy swell of my pregnancy weighing me down, doom-scrolling through local news on my phone, when a push notification slid across the top of the screen. [Local Breaking News: Green-wood Heights Wife-Killer Apprehended. Suspect brutally stabbed his pregnant wife to death after she refused intimacy.] My thumb hovered over the screen. A cold drop of unease landed in my stomach. I tapped the notification. The timestamp on the article was dated tomorrow. And the name of the murderer was my husband. I stared at the screen, convincing myself it was a glitch, a sick prank,…

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