“You’ll have to come with us to explain what happened.”
The police car’s rotating blue light wrests Martin’s body from the dark at intervals. Her boyfriend lies on the gleaming pavement near the freestanding clock across from the busy pubs.
They did this. She was just waiting for Martin next to the tapered clock when those drunk men started harassing her, lifting her skirt with an umbrella. They only left when she got her hands on a loose cobblestone.
“It’s time,” the officer says.
His colleague bags the bloodstained stone.
How could she have known it was Martin tapping her shoulder?
A life-crushing mistake.
Love this!! So sad, but so well written!!
Sad, moving. Sometimes the endings in life are not what we want or expect.
Please more left-overs!
I love it?