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.
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