Alibi

in the motel

yeah, another Hai Dang prompt that turned into an entire story - well a bit late for trigger warnings, you already saw the knife eh?

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audio is kinda fun here →

I must hide quickly–ah shoot

Peeking from under the bed–my boot

Come on out the Sheriff said

But I didn’t kill her, then I pled

We have you dead to rights

Isn’t that, stuck in her chest, your knife?

Yeah, it’s mine, that I admit

But it wasn’t me that killed her with it

Do explain, the Sheriff said

Well, that was us there on the bed

When her jealous husband found our sin

He grabbed my knife and stuck it in

Then out the window he fled

I heard the sirens and climbed under the bed

Just about then a deputy came

Shouting out the Sheriff’s name

You won’t believe what I found

Lying dead there on the ground,

Some fool jumped off the window ledge

Hit the ground and broke his neck!

Guess this is your lucky day then, son

The Sheriff allowed, with a bit of a frown

But there’s just one thing I don’t understand

If it wasn’t you, then who called it in?

The deputy, who was poking around

Exclaimed hey Sheriff, ain’t this a phone?

The Sheriff, pretty quick on his feet,

Says yes that’s a phone, you idiot

And checking, says it’s the wife’s, of course

And the last number that she called, was us.

And it looks like there’s something stuck there on it

Holy cow, its today’s winning lottery ticket!

The manager chimes in, the dead guy, see

Is the man who rented the room from me

Then the examiner adds – here’s another fact

There’s a boot print there in the small of his back

And that was when I finally gave in.

Looks like you caught me, I said, with a grin.

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well, 😁his prompts just do that to me. If you follow me you might have run into ‘a more dependable ride’ which was another of his. Hope you had fun!