The Saddest Day
“The saddest day in my life, ever, was when I saw a corpse without a head,” she said.
She told me that she was working as a maid in a hotel at the time, and it was she who found the naked, headless body that belonged to a girl who wasn’t even old enough to drive a car.
The head was sawn off with a brand new saw–$12.99 at the Ace® Hardware store. From the jagged remnants of the neck protruded muscles and veins that looked like an octopus’s tentacles; blood leaked out of it to soak the hotel’s linen.
I saw that corpse, too. But the saddest thing I ever saw was that same girl, crying, begging for her life, when that pretty little head was still on her shoulders.
