Cursed

“I do not understand,” said his wife, Henriette

Tonnesen, again and again to her girlfriends who

gathered to comfort her in the hard times. “We

had a good marriage; he was looking forward to

the party. He did not seem depressed.”

Nevertheless, the forensics experts were quick

to declare the patriarch of the family dead by

his own hand. Suicide, in other words.

His death was the first, but unfortunately not

the last, in a series of events that occurred in

the small town in the forthcoming months.