Darkness of Guilt: A Short Story

David awakens to the sound of a voice. A female voice. The voice of his dead wife. He lies in bed listening to the sounds within the house. The winter wind howls outside his bedroom window. The thought of that night burns through his mind. The night his loving wife, Mary, died. The guilt of what he had done consumes him. David fights the urge to drink. He fights through the painful thoughts of that night six months ago. Mary had been David’s whole life. She had been his everything. It was all David’s fault. David would do anything to have just one more night with Mary.