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Chapter 26 - That Smell

I'm sitting down and reading Mark Twain while my wife sleeps, but there's this odd smell. A smell that I can barely detect, but it's so appalling. I go to my bathroom, brush my teeth, then exit the bathroom; the smell is more prominent.

I open the windows. Five minutes later, the smell is still there. I'll just breathe through my mouth while I sleep. As I lay in bed, the smell gets worse. What is going on? I stop and analyze the smell. It's like cow shit! Then I crouch, I sniff.

SNIFF

SNIFF

I shake my wife's shoulder.

"Why did you wake me?"

"Emily, did you shit yourself?"

"Oh, oh, fuck, I did."