While he was doing the dishes or cooking dinner.
While he was baking brownies, cleaning the oven, folding laundry, cleaning the toilet, or vacuuming the rugs.
No woman ever shot a man while he washed the floor, made the bed, or hung curtains.
Unless he’s doing it for another woman.
Rita Riebel Mitchell writes in the Pinelands of South Jersey. Her work appears in Flash Fiction Magazine, Versification, Black Hare Press, 101 Words, and others. Visit her at FridayMicro.com.