Her collection was impressive. Each of them carrying a memory. They all represented someone. Someone who had lived and breathed, someone once close to her.
She sighed, each of them was also a parting. They had been sweet, but she could no longer hear their breathing or smell the bedrooms where they had parted. Bedrooms where lights had gone out.
She smiled, each of them also represented part of her retirement funds. She had enjoyed her job, and now only one job remained, one lamp still shining bright.
“Here’s your evening tea, sweetie”
Afterwards, she turned off his bedside lamp.
So my 100 words turned a little dark this week. Hope you were surprised appropriately.
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February 5, 2014
Björn Rudbergs writings 
Dear Björn,
Oh she is a cagey one and so are you for using the lamps in such a murderous way. I’m not sharing tea with you. Good one.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Ha.. I never drink tea at bedtime..
Very nicely done, Björn. She’s one of the worst ones, who act like everything they do is sweetly reasonable.
janet
A hit-woman enjoying her work… yes that’s really the worst.
A hit woman with a difference. Was all this taking place in a care home? Such a dark story about light. 😉
I realized it sounds like a care home… was not my original intention… but it sounds good.
absolutely chilling, Björn! cruel and delightful. 🙂
Cruel and eerie are always best. 🙂
oh snap….creepy…..when the care provider goes bad…
wonder what country she will escape to…smiles.
Hmm.. I think she will just stay were she are.. The poison used was undetectable.
Ohh, deliciously dark 🙂
I love dark
loved this, Bjorn. Dark…but such a good story!
Quite a twist at the end. The reader starts out thinking, “What a gentle person, remembering friends.” Then there’s the murderous twist at the end. Wow!
Such love and tenderness but yet so cruel. Nicely done.
Bjorn is an angel of death or is she an angel of mercy? I choose to keep her tender and vote mercy. Very good story.
Still she have made money out of it…
Ugh! You had to bring me back to reality. I can’t possibly see her as good now.
What a interesting career.
The caregiver of death! 🙂 Nicely done too, I didn’t see it coming!
Hmmm… a little Arsenic and Old Lace, I think.
Angel of mercy eh? Or just wants them out of the way?
I was like “awww that’s really sweet…no…wait… NOOOO!”
Ohhh the angel of death! Nice twist!
Part of her retirement, nice!
[shudder!]
Deliciously dastardly!
Bjorn – this was creepy good – I enjoyed it. So she has been saving for her retirement beginning tomorrow? I don’t trust old ladies . . . oh wait . . . I AM AN OLD LADY! Drat.
The last of the perfect murders. Well done!
Oh, I like the dark turn this one took! Nice and creepy. Fabulous.
She’s so nochalant, I bet she even yawns before turning out the light.
Oh, one of those kind of collectors. A ha! Yes, you definitely took us down a dark path with this one, Bjorn. Creepy!
Uh oh, does that mean what I think it means? Well done, Bjorn!
Are you sure she isn’t lined up to be taking care of you? I understand her rates are reasonable!
Yikes! She’s a weird one. Nicely done!
Dark and yet somewhat calm…as the meaning dawned upon me. Nice work. 🙂
That is a bit dark! Worrying. Could it happen to me?
That must have been a difficult cup of tea to make.
I checked out the Fiction Book out. I like it. Great idea. Hope you sell a lot of them.
This one is delicious, Björn! Well paced and dark at the finish. Sounds like a good wine. 😉 Nice job.
Whoa!What a dangerous woman!Loved how you made the story seem so ordinary and sweet till the end Bjorn and then wham!Loved it 🙂
EEE Yikes! I got goosebumps!
Wow Bjorn. Honestly scary, this is. Such an innocently sweet start led off to something so wicked!
Good one, Bjorn. What a psycho, and keeping a souvenir of each victim is dark and sinister. Great story. Ron
I love the way you end this.
This certainly gave me a chill. Well done.
Didn’t see the coming. She must have quite a healthy pension fund by now.
So very cruel… and wonderful!
My initial thoughts of ‘awww’ are now ‘ughhh’