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Weekly Contest #372
“Sara, make sure the door is locked before going to bed.” Something my mother, who worked overnight shifts at a local truck stop would remind me of before hanging up her routine goodnight calls that she made every night around 8:30 pm, right before I got ready for bed at 9:00. A reminder I’ve continued to hear well into adulthood. One that has become more of a ritual that I never skip after her passing three years ago. Her cause of death: Homicide, Suffocation by a home invader around 4:30 in the morning. That only tells something nefarious...
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