Black Widow - E-book - ePub

An anti-Valentine's Day horror short. Colby and I have always been different. It's what first drew me to him, that day when I saw him studying alone in the student union. Over time, our differences have only become more apparent. I pay attention. And, unlike him, I do listen. I always have, to Colby. I know things about more bugs than I care to. I paid attention when he told me that female praying mantises eat their mates.
For years, I asked follow-up questions when he introduced me to crab spiders and how they ate their siblings and mothers. "Animal cannibalism, " he said, "is really quite common. It's natural if you think about it. Survival of the fittest, Tendra." To be fair, he had no idea why I was asking these things. In his defense, he wanted to believe I was the perfect, attentive wife. It's what I orchestrated him to believe.
You see, I'd orchestrated everything...