Do Not Disturb

by Freida McFadden

For my parents, who let me watch way too many scary movies when I was a child

I didn’t wake up this morning and say to myself, Hey, I’m going to kill my husband today! If I had done something like that, I would have filled up my gas tank beforehand, for starters.

Ultimately, I’m just too tired to go through with it. I’m literally too tired to kill myself.

Maybe we used up all our happiness. Maybe everybody only gets so much.