It seems that a week doesn’t go by without yet another high-profile suicide that shocks the world. These are people who by all appearances were successful and achieved all that they wanted, yet they chose to take the plunge towards death prematurely. At the outset, I’m going to say that I’m not a mental health
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Read Prologue | Episode 1 | Episode 2| Episode 3 | Episode 4 | Episode 5 “And then what happened?” I asked Giselle, the housekeeper. “After dessert, Alfred said madam needed to see me at once. When I went upstairs she yelled and said she never asked for me. She went off to see her guests, and
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Read Prologue | Episode 1 | Episode 2| Episode 3 | Episode 4 | Episode 6 “Thank you for meeting with me Alfred. I won’t take up too much of your time, I just have a couple of questions about the night Mrs. Zahir’s necklace went missing” I said. “Of course” Alfred, the butler, replied with a
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Read Prologue | Episode 1 | Episode 2| Episode 4 | Episode 5 | Episode 6 “So how long have you and Amy been friends for?” I asked Sameera. “Almost twenty years now,” she replied with a bitter laugh. Sameera and her husband lived in little cottage house in the suburbs. I couldn’t help but notice
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Read Prologue | Episode 1 | Episode 3 | Episode 4 | Episode 5 | Episode 6 “So can you tell me what happened the night of the robbery?” I asked Hamza after the small talk was over. “I already told the investigators everything I know” Hamza spoke very quickly. He started tapping his right foot uncontrollably
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