I warned you, I had a thing for serial killers today.
Getting the Axe*
All I could think as Tom’s headless body came flying out the pot was, “Damn, this fucker just won’t die.” I’d cut off his head, hung him by his heels and left him to bleed out. So I thought. Instead, there I was, chasing him around the kitchen, desperate to catch him. He belonged in that pan so I could roast him to a crispy delight. Not only that, but his half-plucked feathers had scattered all over the kitchen, knocking over my coffee and landing in the bowl of sliced apples. So much for my Thanksgiving ritual sacrifice, with pie.
based on the true story of my grandmother and the chicken. that. would. not. die.
(spoiler fonted because if you read this first, it will ruin the drabble)
The couple talked over the latest movie they’d seen as Claire dished up the pie and ice cream. “It was a fine movie,” the husband said, “but I didn’t believe the ending.” George was a writer and tended to pause as if waiting for his audience to catch up.
“Really? Of course with a lead like Helen Mirren, what’s not to believe?” Claire tended to take her beloved’s tangents with a few grains of salt to keep peace in the house. She just didn’t feel anything as seriously as he seemed to, anyway.
“Well, women don’t have that kind of killer instinct.”
”Well, okay, maybe not with a golf club. But there are plenty of...homely ways to do someone in.”
She says this lightly, but is hurt when he declines another slice of pie.
ooo, erika. I'd change one word. Hurt to disappointed in the last line--it's more telling.
Or am I reading something in you didn't intend? Again?
If you are, then I am, too, Bev. I'm surprised at how many of these drabbles have taken a dark turn. I'm enjoying the heck out of them.
But it's not No yet. It's still just O. They should call it NaOWriMo, for the nonce.
It doesn't stand for November. It stands for Novel.
Oh, that's right. It's so linked with November in my mind, I'd forgotten that.
sheesh, can't even be truthy around here
It's so linked with November in my mind, I'd forgotten that.
Yes, I thought the Mo was always No.
At any rate, I think that I'm going to fail to do it again this year!
It starts Nov 1, but you can sign up now (I'm looking at doing it with my class)
