"Madame Dankles is a curse on the lips of young girls in the hereafter, but once upon a time she was Suzanne, living on a quiet street with her husband and a baby on the way. But that was before Mrs. Dankles set out on an unstable tightrope blinded by hope, set on regaining marital bliss. That was before the fall."
My illustration for the Beatrice is Dead related flash fiction by S. Zainab Williams: