I Think I Preferred You on the Edge of Death

It seemed so long ago; her husband inside the isolation unit at the hospital, a victim of an 'unidentified rogue virus' that had put him in a coma for three weeks. But he'd fought the disease, and beaten it.

And then he was discharged. She shuddered at the thought. Oh he'd be all sweetness and light at first. But the verbal abuse, the beatings...they'd return soon enough. She examined the scar on her arm from a previous knife attack at his hands.

Oh yes, it was good to see such a salt of the earth man back on his feet.