Was it happenstance that they met and fell in love, courted, married and raised two lovely daughters, worked hard and saved, traveled sometimes in the summer, retired into a lovely little bungalow, doted on their grandchildren, grew ill and then died two days apart, both in their eighties? That’s happenstance?

Victor Kreuiter writes all the time and always has. He has been published in Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Sou’wester, and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (not yet in print).