Over

Overall Vera was generally pleased with her life to date, although
she felt her age now. It overwhelmed her, the idea that she was nearly
middle-aged, that life was starting to dry up round the edges and soon
great cracks would appear heading towards the centre. When they all met
in the middle, she knew age would overpower her. She was overcome with
depression at this point in her thoughts. She searched for a happy
memory to override the feeling. Perhaps a little over indulgence in
retail therapy would overcome the mood?

Looking back, she had always been mildly overburdened with depressed
thoughts. She took every remark, every glance, as a hint of
condemnation. Perhaps this was over-sensitive of her. However it did
make her want to comfort eat and of course, she over-indulged and
became rather overweight. In fact she was a round little child who had
grown into an overanxious round little adult.

She was overjoyed when she could leave school and all the overblown
bonhomie of the girls in her class. They were a lot of overbearing,
overactive individuals. She wanted nothing more to do with them.

When she began her life as a student, she realised that she was
over-sexed and her social life went into overdrive. It was at this
point that Oliver entered her life. She was overawed with his good
looks and wealth and decided that he would be overindulged with the
heights of her passion.

They married shortly after graduation. She put up with the overdressed,
overcharged, overwrought occasion because of what would follow; a life
of luxury not overburdened with the need to actually do anything.

Oliver was willing to overlook her laziness, even her huge overdraft,
and overt horror of facing up to reality. It was her overnight stays
with her over-rated friends, male and female, that eventually overcast
the marriage. He told her he was going to leave; that she had
overestimated his fortune, and he could no longer afford to stay
married to her. He had discussed it with his solicitor who'd said that
his budget was overloaded because of her. His wife had overstayed her
welcome. He was to be divorced at once, before his family wealth was
overdrawn and they had nothing left. His solicitor sternly warned that
if he were to die, his wife would get all the money and the rest of the
family would be overcome with destitution.

When she overheard this, Vera decided he would have to have an
accident. She told him it was time to cut the hedge, overstating the
need to keep things tidy so that his family were not aware of their
marital troubles.

She was overeager to plug in the electric hedge trimmer for him,
forgetting to mention that the power point was already overloaded and
the power breaker had been overlooked. She knew his overconfidence in
her would prevent him going to check the situation for himself.

As he got the cable tangled in the trimmer, he just had time to call
out to her,
'O Ver. . .'

'Yes, it's over,' she said, and it was.