Flash Fiction : See No Evil
Niagara Falls, May 2020 © Olivia M. Ridge
Image by Olivia M. Ridge
Words by Emma Elizabeth Mathes
There was a murder at The Falls last night. A young woman pushed her boyfriend off the Rainbow Bridge.
The media is, predictably, in a frenzy. Reports and conjectures dominate the news; everyone has an opinion and a theory. It’s “good TV,” because America loves a broken woman.
Little do they know that I was there when it happened. From thousands of feet away, I heard her scream, and turned my head in time to watch him fall. But, I’m claiming plausible deniability. The only tower viewer on my deck was broken. And I’m sure she had her reasons.
