“She vanished just as the year ended” after joining millers meeting a new dating site that I had suggested.

We had met up for a drink at Clancy’s bar in town where we had a couple of drinks until

She had to leave to meet John later at 8 who she described as the perfect man well, so his profile had stated.


I wished her the best of luck bit I had known Laura since primary school confident good looking and stylish I often wondered if we hadn’t been so close friends that we could have been an item but that would never happen.

I was the short mousy spectacled man who listened to her troubles was a constant shoulder to cry on sometimes feeling used and abused with her actions towards me depending what mood she was in.

But I knew that would never happen she told me one time that I wasn’t her type, and she could never fancy me we had been drinking although I knew this, I found what she said hurtful.

I saw her come and go with different men through the years and each one chipped away at my confidence sometimes I thought she was trying to rub my nose at the fact that anyone else could have her, but I couldn’t she was forbidden fruit.

Anger and resentment grew to her I was just a pawn to her who only moved one square at a time

but not anymore.


I showered got dressed and put on my favourite aftershave I didn’t want it to turn out the way it did we agreed to meet at Grayson’s motel on the highway I knew she would agree as she had done with others on many occasions.

When I hear the door knock then opened it and she saw my face she stood back in momentary shock and anger  then laughed loudly and mockingly in my face I could tell she had been drinking she asked me if this was a joke because if it was it was on me calling me delusional and desperate in how I could ever pull a stunt like this to get her and how she found me sexually repulsive then turned to walk away.

I felt my mind clouding and as if a red mist came over my eyes as I reached out and grabbed her by the back of her neck, then dragged her into the room and closed the door with my foot.

It was all over in minutes as I choked the life out of her as she slumped to the floor.

Years of anger and resentment melted within me.

Her family reached out to the public for information on her whereabouts all they knew she was on a dating site that no longer existed.

Feeling a sense of guilt it soon passed as I sat on garden lounge suite on my new concrete patio and sipped my beer.

If I couldn’t have her nobody else would.