Full Term

30th April

 The prompt for this six sentence story is "term"

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Full Term

Sally walked through the tape, avoiding cracked steps, and stopping to slip  plastic  coverings over her shoes, before  walking through the open front door of the Victorian terraced house.  Her eyes smarted, and she coughed as the strong smell of bleach unexpectedly caught her throat. Covering her face with her hands, she made her way towards the kitchen, relieved  to discover  that the all the windows were open. 

"All yours, Doctor,"  the policemen said, as he passed her in the corridor, "not a pretty site, I'm afraid." 

How spotless everything looks, she thinks, glancing round the kitchen,  someone cleaned up well.  Only the body disrupted the scene, the body of a woman in her early thirties, Sally guessed, her clothes tattered, covered in blood,  cuts to her face, arms and legs, and, shockingly, as far as she  could tell, pregnant and full term, too.

 As Sally fell  to her knees beside the  splayed limbs of the woman, gently feeling for any sign that baby might be alive, she thought of another time, not long ago when her own little Joe died before he could take a breath and realising that this little one was dead too, she could no longer hold back her tears, which now flowed softly down her cheeks .