The Killer's Wife
Susan Furlong
"Six years in Montana Woman’s Prison (MWP), four years served, and now for two years she’ll be on parole. And I’m to be her parole officer."
"Six years in Montana Woman’s Prison (MWP), four years served, and now for two years she’ll be on parole. And I’m to be her parole officer."
"I hated her too. I wanted her dead. And I know I’m not the only one."
"She still looked as if she might hurl herself against the already-flyspecked window, so I eased myself back toward it and opened the glass, just in case."
"The Savage History of Proofrock, Idaho opens looking through the two eyeholes of a mask, and of course there’s some heavy, menacing breathing."
"He couldn’t have looked more like a backup plan if he’d had the words tattooed to his forehead."
"Tinsel exhaled slowly, her nerves entirely shot. There was no point imagining horrors when the ones she was dealing with IRL were just as prescient."
"Janice drove slowly to avoid jostling the plastic containers of food on the floor behind her seat."
"A dizzy spell has me now in its grip. I can’t focus on what’s in front of me, my mind still stuck between two places. What just happened to me?"
"The bonfire is burning brightly now, its heart molten gold."
"Four days until Christmas."
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