Killer-Extras: Flash Fiction
What would you wish for if your wife offered to fulfil your wildest desire? Chris Reed answers that question with chilling results!
Lily's Grave
By Chris Reed
I was turning forty and my wife, Liz, wanted to make my
birthday a special one. Since we didn’t have much money to
spare, she offered to grant me a wish. “Go ahead, Nick,” she
said as we sipped coffee at the diner down the street from our
apartment. “Anything you want.”
“Anything?”
“Anything. Don’t hold back.”
I thought for a moment, but it seemed like everything I wanted
could only be achieved with a check book. Finally, I said, “I
don’t know. Really, I can’t think of anything.”
Liz leaned forward so the people seated near us wouldn’t hear.
“What about your deepest, darkest fantasy? Something you’ve
never told me before.”
After four years of marriage, there wasn’t much I hadn’t shared
with Liz. Well, maybe there was one thing...
I leaned forward until I was close enough to smell the coffee on
her breath. “If I tell you, you’re going to think I’m crazy.”
“Go on,” she said. “Whatever it is, I’ll do it for you.” She was
silent for a moment, then said, “How about a three-way? My
friend Melissa’s into that stuff. You know, the one that works
at the gas station? You think she’s attractive, right?”
“Sure, she’s good-looking,” I said. “But you know how I feel
about monogamy.”
She rolled her eyes. “Well, then, what’s your idea?”
I fiddled with my cup, trying to figure out how to say it. “I
don’t think it’s legal.”
“Just tell me!”
I leaned all the way over the table and whispered in her ear: “I
want to fuck a dead person.”
Her eyes widened a little, but she didn’t freak. “A female,
right?”
“Of course a female,” I said, easing back into my seat.
She looked relieved, then contemplative. “That could be risky.”
“Not to mention impossible,” I said, “considering we don’t know
any dead people.”
“That’s what the obituaries are for,” Liz said.
The rest of this story is no longer on our website, but will be available for purchase Summer 2009 with the release of our annual anthology!
Killer-words: Year One
Tiny Slices of Darkness
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Bio Bits:
Chris Reed has published more than thirty short stories. His
most recent fiction has appeared in Black Ink Horror, Aberrant
Tales, and the Cutting Block Press anthology, Tattered Souls.
Visit his website: www.ChrisReedFiction.com.
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