Marge knew how to purge blood from her soiled clothes, any woman knew, but It had been messy.
Had to be…
Tim deserved it a million times for what he had done to Beth. For what Lucy had suffered, the scars on her breast.
But flesh and bone was different, it had to go, she had to make sure he never was found, his corpse had to be obliterated, not like hiding in snow would be.
The easy way out was to bathe him in concrete, let him sink in the ocean, but there had to be due process, their way to celebrate freedom.
Marge knew how to cook and started the arduous process. She had the aromatics, the spices and fruits, and within days Tim’s 300 pounds was gone.
The village would always remember Marge’s heavenly mincemeat they had the Christmas of 1932.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Today Kim hosts Prosery at dVerse, the prompt where we embed a line or two from a poem into a piece of prose no longer than 144 words (or exactly if we prefer so). Kim tells us how she had looked for poems with a November theme, and she had selected the text ‘Snow would be the easy way out’ from ‘November for Beginners’ by Rita Dove.
I tried my best to find a good way to cut the line and embed it deep in my text. For some reason I always go macabre on my prose, but I am sure you are used to my prose by now.
November 6, 2023
Björn Rudbergs writings 
eww
indeed… but the village never knew.
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The picture you put along with it.😵💫
When I found it after I had written the story I could not use any other.
Macabre indeed, Björn! I love the progression from purging blood from soiled clothes to heavenly mincemeat – via a corpse. Well done on embedding the prompt line so well I didn’t notice it on first reading – I had to look for it!
I had fun trying to hide the line. It was a lot easier line to work with than some of the ones we have had recently.
Oooh this one has November written all over it, Bjorn! It’s darkly wrought and brooding. I love how seamlessly you have worked in the line by Rita Dove into the prose! Kudos ❤️❤️
It was fun trying to conceal the sentence…
I was not expecting that. Ewwwww!
I also could not find the line without searching for a while.
Ha… thank you. It was easy to mold this time.
Yes, not flowery language to deal with.
Grisly, but so clever!
I am glad you thought it was grisly.
Sounds like a true story 🙂
Or maybe gristly, Jane.
Very chewy anyway 🙂
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Love how you creatively weaved in the prompt smoothly with the story and laid out the settings for a gruesome plot!
I like it gruesome
Very darkly humorous. I guess he really deserved it. As far the heavenly mincemeat bit is concerned, I think I laughed harder than I should have.
I appreciate that, I also think that gruesome can be hilarious.
I wonder if Marge’s surname was Lovett? Brilliantly grisly (although I hope the pies weren’t gristly) read Bjorn, and a fantastic way of splitting the prompt – I had to re-read to find where the prompt was!
I am sure that those pies are all gone by now..
OMG!!!!
I’m speechless
Much🖤love
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Macabre and very spicy, Björn. The aroma I’ll just have to imagine — maybe not! 🙂
I believe it would be like any mincemeat, except it sounds like there would be a lot of fat to render out.
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Yuck, quite macabre indeed, but I like your dark sense of humor.
I am glad you saw the humor in it.
there is a touch of the Stephen king about this. enjoyed .
What a great compliment.
“bathed in concrete” had me laughing. Macabre is a perfect adjective for what she did with her special spices and how she served him. (Oblique reference to the cookbook the aliens brought in a Twilight Zone episode.)
I had not read that, but as for cookbooks I think we have all the cookbooks we need.
the gist:
Oh Marge is an evil cook and the things that happen in villages….gruesome indeed.
Maybe he deserved it, but I doubt the villagers did.
Oh man, what a creative twist. I knew not to trust the minced meat pies. This solidfied my feelings.
I though about sausages first, but somehow this was funnier… good that it wasn’t beef tartar.
ooof! … and christmas is just around the corner! (my nanna used to make mincemeat pie … )
Indeed… mincemeat with meat sounds weird to me.
I had to re read to find the given prompt line! You hid it so cleverly Bjorn, just like your victim! Very grotesque!
Thank you… I think grotesque is also funny
Oh dear… a ghastly plot… a good take on the prompt though!
There is some humor in the ghastly though
Yes, sometimes, it can only be approached through humour!!!
OOOOOOhhhh, shades of Sweeney Todd … love it!
Or solyent green?
Wow. And excellent story with a complete plot. 🙂
I think a story should have start and and end with a middle between
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Now I’m thinking “Fried Green Tomatoes” with a twist! I love how you cut the line! So good!
Macabre and mysterious Bjorn! Creatively done! Certainly out of the box.
Hank
Poe meets Medea. A brilliant serving of the Macabre, for that morbid of months, November!