Amid the Recesses: A Short Story Collection of Fear (20 page)

“
You did this, Emily. We
had everything and you didn’t think it was enough.” Jared stared
down at his unconscious wife, entranced with madness.

A voice came from below the sink.
“Give… me… your… metal.” A grainy rasp.

Jared looked back to the sink. He
leaned down and grasped both of her wrists with his gauzed hands.
Jared dragged her to the thumping beat of Matt’s music. The date
was over. Jared didn’t care. He dragged Emily across the stained
floor until he reached the cabinets below the sink. Jared opened
the cabinets and was hit by the harsh smell of the bleach that he
soaked the rag in. Jared leaned down to Emily and looked her over.
Blood trickled down the right side of her bruised head. Jared’s
lips neared the wound and he whispered. “I loved you.” He pulled
away. Jared shoved Emily’s head beneath the sink, where the diamond
necklace caught the dim light of the kitchen for the last time. He
pulled the rag out of the pipe, uncorking it. A foul must filled
the space.

Jared left her there, with her head
stuffed beneath the kitchen sink. He walked into his bedroom,
turned off the light, locked his door and went to sleep. He slept
to a serenade of crunching.

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