Current Day She watched in disjointed fascination as the warm blood ran down her left hand and pooled onto the crumpled Book of Kells tapestry. The knife lay at the foot of the credenza where she had thrown it in disgust. The acrid mix of his cigar and the spilled whiskey pinched at her nose. With the click of the CD changer, the eventful silence was broken. “How fitting,” she murmured as “The Point of No Return” from The Phantom of the Opera wafted from the living room. She turned and slowly...

Current Day She watched in disjointed fascination as the warm blood ran down her left hand and pooled onto the crumpled Book of Kells tapestry. The knife lay at the foot of the credenza where she had thrown it in disgust. The acrid mix of his cigar and the spilled whiskey pinched at her nose. With the click of the CD changer, the eventful silence was broken. “How fitting,” she murmured as “The Point of No Return” from The Phantom of the Opera wafted from the living room. She turned and slowly...