He had to leave her when she got too deep into black magic and voodoo dolls. She started making them when people pissed her off. At first the pins she stuck in the crudely made dolls didn’t work, but it was bothersome to him. He felt like her growing obsession was a sign of her gradually losing her mind and it was beginning to creep him out.
Things got worse when the pins and the voodoo dolls seemed to be working. She made a doll of an annoying, old lady neighbor and a day later the neighbor died, supposedly of natural causes. Then she made a voodoo doll of a comedian she said had disrespected feminists. She stuck ten pins in its chest, and days later the news on TV reported he died of a massive heart attack.
He told he she had become evil and he couldn’t be with her after that and he was leaving.
She smiled a wicked smile and told him if he left her, he’d be pinned for death next. The threat scared him. He believed she had gained the power to kill him with her a voodoo doll. He said he was going for a walk to think things over.
He came back with an oblong box in his hand and said he was staying.
“What’s in the box?” she asked?
He smiled wickedly and said, “You.”
He opened the box and pulled out a voodoo doll with a pin in its head. His girlfriend screamed and died of a brain aneurysm.
Bob Boyd