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Submitted to Contest #259
Eggshells and Pachyderms How best to kill him she thought? She stared down at her husband. Tom was lying on his back, his mouth slackly open, snoring noisily. He had seemed to fall asleep almost immediately they had retired to bed, while she lay there, crying softly in the dark. She couldn’t sleep; even his snoring seemed yet one more weapon deployed against her. She knew he hadn’t really gone to sleep that quickly; that he had lain there awake, deliberately ignoring her obvious misery. God, she hated him. She thought back over the day’s eve...
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