Lately, Julia was regretting that she had married Merle. She had waited patiently, but Merle had denied her last chances of happiness.
Her mother, Clara had spent an quiet unhappy life, but found solace in her garden, raising mainly succotash and squash with cherry tomatoes. Why, is not known.
At the end of a long day, Julia sobbed in Mom’s kitchen, as
Mom chopped the vegetables, adding a carrot for color. “Well, girl. You could use this to settle him down.”
She handed over a squash, returning to the succotash.
Mom recognized a solution, a singularly strange one. It would involve Merle, squash, and a battery operated table top circular saw blade. After a quick trip to the Home Depot near Merle’s urban house, then both women knocked at the door. After he opened the door, the carnage began.
They stood over Merle’s body, clutching the squash.
“Here you go, sweetheart. I sent this for dinner.” She dropped the squash
into his bleeding hand.
saute’
in garlic butter.” Julia left.
Why Mom grew
these S-vegetables was always confusing. Maybe some day she would reveal that to
Julia. There seemed to be a peculiar choice that had a dark meaning.
Here are the Wed. Words for that week: sweetheart, semi-table, solace, singularly, solution, married, lately, denied, squash, urban These words were from February 2022.
Wrestle with them and see if you can get them to make sense. Looking forward to seeing what you find. Head on over to this site: Elephant's Child
Definitely dark. I would be very interested to see what you do with this week's prompts.
ReplyDeleteI will love these words.
DeleteI would worry anytime a daughter and mother together got together to plane revenge. Take care and watch out for fire...
ReplyDeletethe fire is so frightening. we live in fire zone, surrounded and filled by dry growth. We have watched fires from our old house, that burned about 20 mi. away.
DeleteNow comes the real trick, not getting caught for doing the deed.
ReplyDeleteGood question. Perhaps there will be another collection of weird words to blend with the squash.
DeleteGruesome but effective. You do have a dark side. I like itr.
ReplyDeleteDarkness begets darkness. This story does reveal how vulnerable we, as humans, are to the influence of the evil one. Creative thinking though, Susan, and you deserve credit for that.
ReplyDeletethanks! sometimes it is a challenge to use odd words.
DeleteYour stories get so dark. Yikes.
ReplyDeleteI know, I know. sometimes there needs to be a humorous darkness.
DeleteI'm missing the point completely. What's the squash got to do with the carnage? I need pictures. Maybe you could get your hubby to roll play. Email me if you don't want to tell in the comment section.
ReplyDeletethis was all a fight to use words provided. squash was a hard one, so I elevated it. I let the bloggers use their imagination.
DeleteI'm with Mike. What does the squash have to do with the carnage?
ReplyDeleteSquash is used as a weapon of some sort just to get a use for the word. Yeah, I know, it is a stretch.
DeleteI'm not a squash eater, and glad of it! (Especially now...)
ReplyDeleteI enjoy butternut squash. The others have little taste.
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