Cheryl Kaye Tardif Speaks About A Grave Error:
This short story originated from an assignment in the writers' group that I started a year ago. We decided to implement three elements from the conversations of a meeting and use them in writing a short story--spilled orange juice, a ketchup bottle exploding and the word ‘phenomenal'. I know that sometimes men drive women nuts, and that frustrating changes often result from the ever popular mid-life crisis. Meet Myrtle Murphy--a woman who has decided to have a “Norman crisis”. And Myrtle has reached the boiling point. So sit back with a cup of tea and enjoy the read…
A Grave Error
©2007 Cheryl Kaye Tardif
Myrtle Murphy had everything she wanted out of life--a dead husband, a grown son who’d moved to the opposite coast and neighbors who minded their own business. But what she didn’t have was money. She needed a job. At sixty-one and living off a pittance of an early retirement pension, she had no skills to fall back on.
Unless you could call slipping your husband small doses of rat poison in his evening tea for over a month a skill...