A body that bleeds unprovoked is expected to do other things.

Fruitful

It’s all going fine, normal stuff, until I notice the specialty knife on the side table. The expensive kind: serrated edge, full tang, tip curved toward the ceiling like a question mark.

Tender Head

You say, “[one-word innocuous phrase],” and keep moving, aware now that the man is quite drunk, that his friends are not embracing him but holding him upright.

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