Marionette

A husband receives a strange voicemail from his wife and rushes home to find something horrifying.

Photo by Se Nuno on Unsplash. Altered by Jennifer Brewer via Photoshop.

His cell phone buzzed on the hotel nightstand. A picture of his wife smiled back at him on the screen. A sigh escaped his lips as he turned it over, and the buzzing stopped.

A woman breathed deeply beside him. He reached for her before she shifted, grabbed…