The Smell of a Dead Rat

The girl swept the bottom of the bed with the broom and found a few hair ties and coins that had fallen. Other than that, there was nothing else. "There's nothing!" She shook her head strangely and put the broom away. She sniffed carefully and realized that she could not smell it again. "How strange. I'll let the landlord come and take a look another day."

The girl turned off the light and lay back on the bed, continuing to look at her cell phone. From time to time, she would laugh. The fluorescent light of the cell phone screen shone on her face, making her look a little scary. She was so focused on looking at the cell phone that she did not know that there was a girl standing behind her. Her hair hung down and she stared at the cell phone with her. From time to time, she would grin.