BEDTIME STORY
By Jeffery Whitmore
"Careful, honey, it's loaded," he said, re-entering the bedroom.
Her back rested against the headboard. "This is for your wife?"
"No. Too chancy. I'm hiring a professional."
"How about me?"
He smirked. "Cute. But who'd be dumb enough to hire a lady hit man?"
She wet her lips, sighting along the barrel.
"Your wife."
I am becoming very, very tired of this story. These measly 55 words create a scene, not a full short story!! That's my biased, no-coffee-at-8am opinion, and I'm sticking to it.
The theme of this tiny speck of a story is somewhat unclear, simply because it is so short. Having said that, it seems that the message that the author is trying to convey is twofold: that it takes a certain kind of person to kill a spouse, and sometimes, we don't know a person as well as we think we do.
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