Margo used to wonder about her friend Ellen’s strange requests.

“Would you mind picking up some industrial-sized trash bags?”

“Can I borrow your duct tape?”

“Wanna hold my new pistol?”

“Just take my phone.”

Now, sitting here in prison, it all made perfect sense.

Ellen wasn’t her friend after all.

Susan Gale Wickes is a writer from Indiana. She claims nobody was harmed in the writing of this story.