She Got My Side Of The Bed, I Got His Side Of The Business

The cheating husband betrayed his wife. She got revenge in the best way possible.

The arrangement office door at Fontenot & Sons had been shut every night for thirteen years, because families sit in there on the worst day of their lives and a room like that stays made.

At four fifty in the morning on the eleventh of April, Coralee Fontenot found it open six inches, two cups from the good set under the lamp, and the loveseat cushions put back with the zippers forward.

Then she opened the death registration portal, the way she opened it every morning, and found a certificate filed Saturday at 11:52 at night from a terminal eight feet from her chair, under her name, under license FD 4712.

At 11:52 on Saturday night, Coralee had been two hundred miles away at her mother's kitchen table with a plate of divinity at her elbow.

Boone Fontenot had been called a fourth-generation funeral director in the Ellery Ledger four times a year since 2003. His name was on the building, the ballpark bench, and the back of the church bulletin.

His name appeared nowhere on the establishment license, because the field where it would go asks for a number.

Six point type, in the space the state provides for the purpose. Manager in Charge: Coralee M. Fontenot, FD 4712. Designated 03/2009.

She reported it the same day. There was never a version where she didn't.

A standalone revenge story in the Lies, Cheats, & Dirty Deeds series. Handled with respect for the families in every chapter