One night, I got called to a murder scene and found a note at the scene that read, “Kill yourself.” So I did.

It was a strange case, even for a seasoned cop like myself. A young woman was dead, with no signs of forced entry, no surveillance footage of the killer, no murder weapon to be found anywhere. The only clue at all was a piece of paper on her nightstand, with “Kill yourself” scrawled across it in red ink. It wasn’t even the girl’s handwriting.<br><br>Nuance is a gift, folks.<br><br>Edit: Wow, this blew up. For those of you wondering, I didn’t come up with this idea. A student in one of my classes wrote it in a workshop, but it stuck in my mind and I finally posted it with their permission.