She smiled at me, an innocent upturn of her lips. I never saw the noose tightening around my neck.

She called me her little butterfly. I never thought she’d clip my wings.

She said she loved me. It was a love that strangled.

But she didn’t know desperation could kill.

Jenora Vaswani is a cat-lover, aspiring writer, and someone who just really likes cookies. She spends her time cuddling her two little balls of fluff who think (mistakenly!) that they’re in charge.