My instincts were right. I should have never hired that backstabbing nanny. She tried on my clothes, wore my perfume, stole my jewelry, poisoned the dog, turned my kids against me, seduced my husband, shot me in the head, buried me in the basement, and now it’s a Lifetime movie.

Helen Ksypka lives in Eliot, Maine. She is the author of “A Chef for the Queen,” and her humor has been published by Meadowrook Press, Reader’s Digest, The Saturday Evening Post, Light Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere.