Mum’s the Word
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Excerpt
When she collected
Bull’s ashes from the undertaker’s she wondered what to do with them. The
undertaker had sensed her discomfort, and suggested that most people scattered
them in the Garden of Remembrance at the crematorium; but she shook her head
silently. Her father’s ashes were there, and her mother’s would in time join
his; and she didn’t want to contaminate that place with his remains.
Most of all, she didn’t want him to be at rest.
She took the
large purple tub out to the pickup and hesitated. She felt guilty about putting
it; him, in the back of the pick-up, like a sack of feed or bale of hay;
and what if he bounced out if she hit a bump or took a corner too
quickly? An indiscreet snigger escaped her as she pictured this and then pulled
herself together. He’d need to go in the passenger seat; she realised
unhappily, and spent a few minutes strapping the tub with the seat belt.
‘What am I
going to do with you, darling husband of mine?’ she asked the purple
plastic tub as she started the car. For the first time, since she’d killed him,
she was at a loss to know what to do with him. She could almost hear him
laughing at her discomfort, which annoyed her considerably.
Then suddenly; the most amusing and wicked idea just popped into
her head and she had to smother a joyous laugh; aware that parked as she was in
the undertaker’s car park, just off the main road, she could be seen, and that
would never do. Her heart raced as the idea took hold and grew in her mind,
freeing her from indecision. She patted the purple tub with a smile. Now,
she knew exactly where to dispose of him, and he’d be so angry, so deliciously
upset that it pleased her enormously. Oh revenge really was a dish best
served cold! God! It was perfect. Perfect!
Author Bio
– Lorraine Turnbull was born in
Glasgow where she lived until 2005 when she and her family moved to Cornwall to
run a smallholding. She relocated to France in 2017 where she continues to make
cider, writes books and learns French.
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