PART 2 OF 7
What Brenda Had Been Hiding
Mavenlus DeskFICTION
For several seconds, no one moved.
Shawn could hear his own breathing.
He could hear the old refrigerator humming.
He could hear a weak cough from the cellar below.
Everything else seemed impossibly quiet.
“Brenda,” he said.
His sister's lips parted.
No words came.
Shawn's voice dropped.
“What did you do?”
“It's not what you think.”
He almost laughed.
Not because anything was funny.
Because the sentence was so absurd.