Snooze

Beep! beep beep!

"What the hell?" I thought as I looked over at my annoyingly loud alarm clock. 3:07, it read.

I didnt have to be up for work for anothe 5 hours...why the hell was my alarm clock going off like this. I sleepily reached over and turned it off.

10 minutes later, at 3:17...just as I was finally drifting back off to sleep, it went off yet again.

Now angry at myself because I must have pressed Snooze instead of off, I did so now. "Shit..." I muttered, "might as well go pee since im up"

I stumbled in the dark headed for the bathroom, when a loud alarm made me jump...it was my clock at 3:19 going off again!

Work be damned...I was unplugging that thing. I did so, resisting the urge to chuck it against the wall, and went and relieved myself.

I made my way back to bed and was soon fast asleep...

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

impossible! I groggily thought...I unplugged that shit! I reached out..and what I felt woke me up immediately...

THE CLOCK WAS UNPLUGGED!!! but it was still going off at 4:26am...impossible...it was electric run only...no battery power...how was this clock still running?

Even more startling was the shadow I thought I saw playing on my wall...I caught the gleam of a metallic object in the fading moonlight...a blade maybe..or a scythe perhaps...id seen it somewhere before...

..........................................

"Time of death was around 4:30ish yesterday morning" the examiner said. "No signs of struggle..no marks anywhere...he seemed to have 4 consecutive heart attacks, just this morning...the last one was a massive one and killed him"

"Around what times would u say those heart attacks occurred?"the detective asked.

id say about 3:07ish...then one 10 mins later. One soon after that about 2 mins later. And finally the massive one at..."

"4:26?" The detective interrupted.

The examiner looked strangely at the detective, and after a moment of silence answered, "Yes..how did you know?"

"Because his clocked was blinking exactly that time..."