2892. Hiding the corpse © Bruce Goodman 2 November 2023

I’ve driven to this place son, to show you the exact spot where I proposed to your late mother forty years ago. You might wonder why I proposed to your mother on a lonely road in the middle of a forest in the middle of nowhere. The truth is, I’ve bought you here to tell you exactly why. As you know I have been diagnosed with terminal cancer, so it’s time to come clean. It was here we came to bury your mother’s ex-boyfriend. He wouldn’t leave her alone. He followed her everywhere, Yes, we did him in. And we brought the body out here to secretly hide it. After that she confessed that she was expecting and you were the result. Only I was not the father. I instantly went down on one knee and said “Hedwig, will you marry me?” Even though I didn’t have a ring. And she said yes. There was a little cave around here somewhere where we hid the body. If we find it we’ll put your mother’s corpse in there as well. No one need know what you did, and it’s a relieve to me in my final days that it’s all over. She threatened to tell the police the truth but Fate stepped in when you wielded that frying pan. A fried egg will never be the same. I’ll think of my liberation every time I fry a sausage. There! That’s the little cave over there! Let’s get a move-on. Contact Author Back to Index Next Story Previous Story