Mysterious Past
Mother’s Death List
While sorting through my mother’s belongings, I found a crumpled notebook tucked under her pillow.
Four words were scrawled unevenly across the title page: “The Kill List.”
The first name on the list was the obstetrician who had delivered me.
The date noted beside it was the day I was born.
The second name was my father’s.
The date was the day he died in a mining accident.
The third name belonged to a stranger.
The date noted was yesterday.
The police told me that this person really did die yesterday, but my mother was buried over a month ago.
