“It’s over,” she said through her tears. “We’re too different.”
I kicked the dirt, and said I couldn’t live without her.
“I can’t just forget the last four years,” I said. “How can you do this to me?”
I told her it would be kinder to kill me now than leave me with my memories.
She nodded in agreement.
“Don’t look back,” she said, patting my hand.
I thought she was trying to console me about our failed romance … until I saw the shadow of her new lover creeping up on me from behind, an axe in his hands.
Bio:
Noel Osualdini has had short fiction published in anthologies 100 Doors to Madness (USA), Fear’s Accomplice (UK), and Unleash the Undead (UK); in online magazines The Were Traveler (Jan 2014) and Crowsteeth (Feb 2014) and, of course, in Horror in a Hundred (March 7). He has a short story coming up in the November edition of Bloodbond.
