Spiked Tea — Cora Buhlert

Two tales of family heirlooms, inheritances, tea and murder.

Spiked Tea

Matthew is getting tired of waiting for the cancer to finally claim his eccentric aunt Annemarie. So he decides to help nature take its course… by adding some morphine to Annemarie's beloved tea.

The Milk Jug

It's neither beautiful nor valuable, but the milk jug has been in Beth's family for four generations now, passed on from mother to daughter and travelling from France via Germany to America. But when Beth brings it home to her apartment in a hipster suburb of Philadelphia, the milk jug stretches her relationship with her boyfriend Ryan to a breaking point…

This is a collection of two short stories of 4400 words or approx. 17 print pages altogether.