2095. Urs's plan backfires © Bruce Goodman 6 April 2021

Urs was a tyrannical husband. Alice had long felt trapped in the relationship. She knew she should untangle herself from such a situation but really she didn’t know how. Her only time of peace was after the evening meal when she would take her coffee (Urs was watching the evening news) and wander down to the back of the garden where Urs kept his racing pigeons. Urs was besotted with his pigeons. Alice found their gentle cooing both soothing and consoling. The racing pigeons were worth a pretty packet. He would enter racing competitions with them regularly. He cared for them more than he cared for his wife One of his more tyrannical aspects was that Alice should prepare only healthy food. He regarded vegetable greens as a must in every meal, especially peas. “Peas are riddled with nutrients,” he would say. “That’s why they are so green.” Alice hated peas. Part of her post-dinner evening walk was to take the peas she had hidden in her napkin and give them to the pigeons. One early morning, Urs went down to see his pigeons and they were all dead. A veterinarian post-mortem showed that they had eaten poisoned peas. Contact Author Back to Index Next Story Previous Story