Ms Obituaries Today Novels & Stories

I sat across from her. The coffee table was between us. “Tell me what you know,” I said. She told me. A photograph from a charity gala, posted by someone at a magazine, served up to her phone because she had lived in the area years ago. A caption with names under faces. Her brother’s name under a stranger. She unfolded the paper in her hand. A yellow square of newsprint, creased at the folds, an obituary seven paragraphs long. Lloyd Blann, 26, of no fixed address, died at Manchester Royal, overdose. Survived by one sister.

"Any pain?" Celeste smiled weakly and shook her head. "I'm much better now that you're here, Marcus." His phone buzzed with an email notification. The subject line read "Ms. Aria Blackwood Obituary - Funeral Services Today." Marcus didn't even bother to open it. He swiped it away immediately, his face twisting with annoyance. "Damn it, when will this end? What the hell does she want now?" he muttered under his breath. "What is it?" Celeste asked innocently.

29. “Here comes the freaking hellhole!” Manang Jeannie’s tone of voice inside selda 29 of the ob-lo was irate, but when Nina was already within hearing range the woman of 47 managed to pretend. “Well, hello there, Miss Cunt, I mean, pardon me, Miss Cañete! How are you today?”

In the photos, Dad's and my faces were black and blue with bruises, dried blood crusted at the corners of our mouths, and there was no trace of life left in us. He spoke slowly, his voice heavy. "Oscar Howard and Cameron Howard passed away two weeks ago."

The maid quickly cut in. “ Is there something else you're expecting?” I snapped at her and loped away, but my knees nearly gave way. The second I got into the car, I opened the newspaper, my eyes searching for some clue or puzzle or anything she might have left behind for me. Then I saw it. Not only a written line. It's an obituary and the name of the deceased reads Lawrence West.