Is Alive

The murder happens every night with slight variations. What is the same is that the murderer, after stabbing his victim, is somehow overpowered and also dies in a pool of blood. The murderer and the victim, side by side, their blood mixing.

More and more people watch. We've become brave, knowing how we cannot change fate. We will never murder. We will never be murdered. We sit closer and closer to the crime scene.

One night it happens in a theater. We were watching opera. An aria, a death, applause. We are excited to see how they will play out the murder the following night.

A street, a restaurant, a school. The same red pool of blood.

I come closer to the dead bodies. The murderer wakes up, is alive, and grabs my leg.