March’s Patreon Challenge story is here! If you subscribe to my Patreon, you can read it for free. Here’s a teaser:

Happy Together, an old song by The Turtles, played on the Amazon Echo while John used a hacksaw to disassemble Miranda’s body. It was ironic, he thought, because they had indeed been very happy together, for many long years, but that had all changed less than 24 hours ago.

Finally, he sawed through the ankle bone. That was a tough one. John tossed the foot into the Hefty black trash bag he had purposed for the task at hand, and then began working on the other foot. 

“Alexa, next,” he said, and the 1960s playlist skipped ahead to the next song, Yesterday by The Beatles.

Yesterday, all their troubles seemed so far away…

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They spent the night in a cheap hotel on 8th Street, one that didn’t require credit cards and asked few questions. The room was thirty-five dollars a night and looked like it hadn’t been cleaned in years. Half the channels on the television didn’t work, the faucet in the bathroom dripped, and the air conditioner wouldn’t stop running no matter how cold the room temperature dropped.

— Leap Year, chapter 23