Sweetheart

A short story to chill you to your bones. Not that that's not a sentence full of cliches ;)

Nothing could terminate the pain. Nothing.

Every night I endured the same torture; the bewildered expression on her face; her last breath a steamy smudge in the cold air.

I hadn’t anticipated this; her never-ending shriek; my groan; the agony of it all. Every . . . single . . . night.

Nobody understands my terror. Their words don’t seem to make sense. I’m helpless. Mad. Crazy. Insane.

As soon as I slip out of consciousness, the memories flood back. I see the knife held awkwardly in my tremulous hand and watch helplessly as it plunges into her chest. I see her beautiful face break into another smile; she hasn’t realised what’s happening – thinks it is all a dream. But as she collapses and I see blood, the colour of rubies, dye her stitched flowers crimson on her scintillating dress, I know it is for real. I try to stop it. In vain.

Why?

Jealousy, revenge. I saw her on the eve of our wedding in the garden. In the arms of another.

And now, as I write this down to finally unleash my terrifying secret, I sense her presence and slowly turn around. But everything’s wrong. I’m confused. I’m not asleep.

Terrified, I glance at her face, now lacking beauty; it’s ashen, the skin tightly drawn across her cheekbones. Her emaciated limbs move in restricted, jerky motions. I notice the flash of a blade clutched in her hand.

“Happy wedding anniversary, sweetheart.”

Author's Note

What did you think? Did it chill you to your bones?? ^^

Reviews

[CamYousefpour]

Sorry, I understand this isn't the most obvious of works. Its kind of a cliffhanger, so nobody is actually killed, but the reader can guess at what happened. So you decide :)

[Crowley]

Dark for sure, good writing, a little confused still on who killed who, maybe my ignorance. Short and sweet and well written. You seem to have a penchant for the dark side of things, makes for interesting subject matter and reading. The line about the blood stitching the flowers on her dress was very good.

[CamYousefpour]

Im sorry if you don't think it was good enough :(
It was supposed to be 250 < for an assignment. So I cant really expand... what didn't you enjoy?

[Kira]

It might have, if it was longer and if it was dark. Also kind of lacking description.

However, there is definitely a dark element to it that would be better with editing.