Shred of Evidence

There is a dark world you can only get to through love, when you realize you’ve given all you can, and it’s still not enough to hold on to someone. There’s power when you have nothing left to lose.

You think of these things as you walk briskly down the crowded aisles of the store, high heels clicking a warning to those ahead. You pass men, not looking for long enough to catch their eye. You stop a woman who seems to work there and ask her where the ties are kept.

Dark ones. Ties suitable for a funeral.

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Gerri Leen lives in Northern Virginia and originally hails from Seattle. In addition to Shred of Evidence, her stories have appeared in Fusion Fragment, Mytholog, and The First Line. Her work has also been accepted by the Sails & Sorcery anthology, Renard’s Menagerie, GlassFire, GrendelSong, and the Fantastical Visions V anthology. Her website is at www.gerrileen.com.