My son-in-law and my daughter left me alone in a remote cabin, quietly staging a “little accident” to swallow all 5 billion dollars, tossing out a chilling line before they walked away; but when they came back home to celebrate their victory, I was already sitting in the living room, holding something neither of them ever expected.
I remember the moment my son-in-law Dylan leaned close to me in the cabin, his breath heavy with smoke and whiskey. “Hope you like fire,” he whispered as he locked the wooden door. The bolt snapped shut like a gunshot, final and merciless. The flames were already crawling along the floorboards, hungry and fast. I…