FORBIDDEN

A woman's curiosity is always her downfall...

     This strange husband of hers with the blue beard had forbidden Marta to enter this room, so naturally she had to enter it.  The first thing she saw was female heads lining the wall. Horrified, she turned to run--but her curiosity was overpowering, and she had to examine them. Each head, she noted, was set in its own niche with a name underneath. Then she saw an empty space…and the name Marta in bold letters under it. “Oh no!” she gasped.

 

     “Oh yes,” growled a voice behind her. Marta whirled to see her husband approaching…and the axe he carried.