Black Widow
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Outside the church it is freezing, raining, but inside Lavonia is doing just fine. She is seated on the first pew in her widow's weeds facing the casket of her x-husband and his common-law wife in the choir. Young Betty will have her day in the seat of honor for another dead man. Then the two women face off against each other in the white limo on the way to the cemetery and all hell breaks loose.
Janice Daugharty
Janice Daugharty is Artist-in-Residence at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, in Tifton, Georgia. She is the author of one story collection and five novels: Dark of the Moon, Necessary Lies, Pawpaw Patch, Earl in the Yellow Shirt, and Whistle.
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Black Widow - Janice Daugharty
Black Widow
by Janice Daugharty
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2010 Janice Daugharty
First published in Kalliope, 1999
From her seat of honor on the front pew, Lavonia can see through her black veil without moving her head: winter rain sliding down the red-curtained windows each side of the crowded church; the grizzled corpse of her legal husband in the coffin below the pulpit; and behind the plyboard lecturn, singing in the choir, Eddie-the-corpse's common-law wife puffed up like a frog about to hop. Betty, who by rights should be sitting where Lavonia sits, dressed in new black shoes, dress, hat and gloves. Pocketbook perched on her lap like a bag of magic tricks.
Well, Betty can blame William Blaxton & Sons' Funeral Home for the messup. Not Lavonia's fault that she got listed as widow in the newspaper obituary last Monday. Twenty some-odd years ago, yes, but for twenty some-odd