The Candidate

As he delivered the funeral oration with great dignity, the Senator realised that the sympathy vote being generated would swing the result of the forthcoming election in his favour. It had been touch and go until now.

Whilst praising his late wife, the unfortunate victim of a hit-and-run, the memory of her infidelity was still an open wound, especially as the correspondent in the adultery had been his political opponent.

Anyone listening to the grieving widower’s eulogy would not have recognised the man who, earlier in the week, had uttered the fateful words: ‘How much, to murder the treacherous bitch?’

© Luigi Pagano 2011