Her Darkest Secret
Vincent Zandri
“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
― André Malraux
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife. That’s what the Bible says. Not that I care all that much about what the Bible says. Although, as a kid, I did enjoy the crucifixion story a lot. I think even at a young age, I knew how to recognize high drama. It’s what would one day lead to my becoming a writer and a mystery writer at that.
The scourging, the crown of thorns, and Jesus being made to carry a two hundred-pound cross after surviving all that horrible abuse. Top it all off with those drunk Romans nailing him to the cross and everybody watching the Son of God bleed out under a dark, storm-ridden sky with all the greedy excitement of binging a new Netflix show. I mean, wasn’t Jesus’s message all about peace, love, and understanding? Something had to be very wrong with people back then. Like there was something in the water. Lead contamination or something.
But you know what’s the best part about the crucifixion story? The most dramatic part? It’s the climax. It’s how, in the end, Jesus goes all bad ass on those sick mofos. How he cheats death and rises on the third day and beats the sick bastards at their own game.
Like I said, I’m not a religious nut or anything. I’m just a writer and a semi-anonymous one at that. But let me tell you something, I do believe in karma. And I can bet Jesus did too, so when he rose from the dead on the third day and beat the living snot out of the devil; when he walked out of that stone tomb and went on his merry way, you know he had to have been whispering to himself, “Well aint karma a bitch.”
But I digress.
The point I’m trying to make is this: I’ve been messing with my own karma these days. It all started when I started seeing Martha behind her husband’s back. Before I go any further, allow me to stress that karma can work both ways. You can make good karma for yourself, or you can make some serious bad karma too.
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