Short Story: Her suicide

01/07/2011 01:32 By SOL LUSTGARTEN

A woman finds that taking the easy way out is not so easy.

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She had been depressed lately. And no wonder. Her only child had moved to a distant college campus, she had been, in effect, demoted at work, and her husband had left her, claiming that she “just annoyed” him. So G. decided to kill herself. Not a rational decision, but she seemed to have abandoned any sense of reason like a piece of luggage she couldn’t recall being hers.

The papers had had a field day with several incidents of people purposely dying in the vast sewer system that lay beneath the city.

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Short Story: Her suicide

A woman finds that taking the easy way out is not so easy.

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