The Blood-Stained Sour Candy
Then, she got down on her hands and knees and shoved them one by one through the crack of my door, trying to cover up the smell of death.
The white mothballs rolled into the room and stopped beside my corpse.
"Mom, that's not the smell of garbage. That's the smell of your daughter rotting."
Did she not suspect anything at all? If she just opened the door and looked, just once, she would finally see. However, she did not.
Mom dusted off her hands, looking pleased with herself.
Just then, the delivery guy downstairs shouted up, "Layla! You've got mail!"
Mom went down to get it and came back with a thick envelope stamped with the City Culinary Association’s logo.