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Plenty of Food

December 2, 2024 5 Comments

By Gail Maitland

It is impossible to track the passage of time without sunlight. Has it been days? Weeks? Months?

At least he left me with running water.

And food. I feel my supply. Yes, plenty of food.

My eyes no longer water as I rip another chunk from the bone and gnaw. In the darkness, I drag myself to the sink. It’s easier now that my body is lighter. I wash the sinewy meat down my throat, but the bitter flavor still coats my tongue.

I let myself slip to the floor and wait. But for what or for whom, I don’t know.

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  1. Tracie Adams says

    December 4, 2024 at 7:55 am

    Yikes, what a haunting bit of prose! Gave me shivers. ?

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  2. Toni Brayer says

    December 4, 2024 at 11:50 am

    Dystopian at its best.

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  3. Michael W King says

    December 4, 2024 at 2:32 pm

    Wish this was 10,001 words so we could get more of the story

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  4. Ed Kratz says

    December 4, 2024 at 4:01 pm

    Great horror. Enough bare details to be chilling.

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  5. Pamela Cartlidge says

    December 5, 2024 at 4:58 am

    Sad. I’m thinking is it an animal or a person? I agree with Michael King, this could be the beginning of a novel. Dark an chilling.

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