Many of my missions end in death. It’s no big deal. I’ve been dead six times now and counting. By the feel of the cold metal barrel resting on the base of my skull, it looks like it might be
I guess it could be worse. I could be married, working a nine to five, and have kids.
No thanks. I’d rather be dead.
Bang!
Emma Borden had an ax and gave her schoolmates 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her teacher 41.
The popular girls at school teased Peggy ruthlessly. They called her Square Peg. “Everyone knows you can’t hammer a square peg into a round hole,” Elisha, the school’s most popular girl, said.
“Square Peg! Square Peg! Square Peg!” the others chanted.
“Really?” Peg asked. The next day, she brought her daddy’s sledgehammer to school and waited for the teacher to leave the class. Then she locked the door and proved them wrong.
You’re just too good to be true,
Can’t take my eyes off you.
You’d be like heaven to touch,
I want to hold you so much.
I roll over in the bed and wrap my arms around my wife. As usual, she is cold and stiff but soon loosens up and spoons against me. We lay there in the quiet, sharing my warmth. I think of her death three years ago, wondering as always when I will have the courage to bury her.
