The front door opened.

I woke up.

I grabbed a golf club and tiptoed down the stairs.

She was waiting for me.

“You left your house keys on my bed.”

“Why are you here?”

I never found out.

My wife, standing behind me, shot the intruder and buried my sin.

Seth Pilevsky’s work has appeared in What Doesn’t Kill You, a YA anthology published by Indomita Press, Maelstrom, The Inner Circle Writers’ Group Literary Anthology 2019, Identity Anthology by ArrowHeart Publishing, Tales of the Strange Anthology by The Writer’s Workout, Stinkwaves Magazine, Long Island Literary Journal, Literally Stories, 50-Word Stories and Memoir Magazine. Sign up for updates at his website, spilevsky.com.