Too Late To Beg
She would lean against the doorframe in one of my dresses, sometimes holding a glass of wine, sometimes filing her nails, and she would tell me, in the conversational tone of a woman chatting about the weather, about all the ways she planned to dispose of my body when I finally died.
"I have been thinking, Mary. There is a property out past the river. Very rural. No one goes there. I could just have you driven out one night and left in a field. The animals would do the rest within a week. There would not be enough left of you to identify."
I did not respond.
She enjoyed it more when I did not respond.
"Or I could have you cremated. There are crematoriums that do not ask questions if you pay