Small Talk by ALbert Russo (superbooks4u .txt) 📕

"OK, put on your nightie and slip under your sheets, I'll go to the kitchen and prepare the salad!"

CATHY: What a fool I was to tell her I became ill. The worst is that I'm more to blame for this situation than she. Trapped, literally tossed in the blanket by my own words. And here she's taking over while I must pretend I am sick. Cathy, for Chrissake, react, it will be now or never!

RITA: Oh, where is she? I'll go see in the bathroom. 'Are you alright dear?" Strange, no answer and the door is locked. She must have passed out No choice but to break in. One, two, one, two, three ...

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The following morning, one could read in the short news column, on page seven of THE STANDARD: " ... In a fit of madness, the petite, seemingly tranquil woman - her neighbours unanimously praised the forty-four year old widow for her kind temper and equanimity - murdered a Mrs. Rita K., whom no one in the building could identify, with a pair of scissors... such savagery would have astonished even Landru..." Imprint

Publication Date: 11-18-2009

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