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Rivetting short story opening lines are hard to find available free to read on the Internet. A Grave Error by Cheryl Kaye Tardif is the exception.

Myrtle Murphy had everything she wanted out of life?a dead husband, a grown son who’d moved to the opposite coast and neighbors who minded their own business. But what she didn’t have was money. She needed a job.

Already, the reader gets the feeling that Myrtle Murphy will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Just the stuff for a good read. I was hooked!

Strong characterisation of the ex-husband left me feeling he only got what he deserved. Then I thought 'Oh my goodness, I'm condoning murder?'

So perhaps I'd better keep my reactions to the short story to myself ...

A good free read.

By for now

Rob

(Rob Hopcott - free online fiction author)