Don’t ask me where this week’s Friday flash (or Friday drabble, as it were) come from. I don’t know.
The adulterer’s brother gripped the axe tightly and chopped off his head. Blood sprayed and dripped down the sides of the polished tin tub they stood in.
The adulterer’s sisters took the body and cut off the proper parts to give the headsman: the feet, the ears and the throat.
The adulterer was cooked, most deliciously, in oil. Except for the bits that allowed him to commit his crime; those were flavored with mint and baked.
The village enjoyed the feast. Such well-salted meaty goodness did not come by every day.
The spirit watched and wished he had been discreet.
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“Motion for change of venue denied, defender.”
Morbid but honest tale there. I liked it.
Thanks Tommy!
I bet he did wish he’d been discrete. How deliciously gruesome this Drabble is. So who got the mint flavoured hot dog with falafels on the side? ^__^
I think maybe whoever he betrayed got those parts. Thanks!
Now, what is the punishment for the glutton? Because I feel like somebody has got to come along and ironically punish this.
LOL I have no idea.
I’m with John! Murder, gluttony, and probably jealousy are all displayed by the villagers. Where is their punishment?
I wasn’t even thinking of the other sins when I wrote this! Maybe I should, huh?
Oh my. Sick and twisted in a clever way, I think. And I third John’s question. The punishment for gluttony, please?
Don’t know! It could be another drabble.
A village has got to eat somehow 🙂
Kinda leave me wondering though, since it takes two to commit adultery…what happened to the other.
I thought about that and decided since she was single, she wasn’t betraying anyone and the villagers wouldn’t punish her in quite the same way.
I want to live there – got a few guys I’d like to drag there with me….mouhahahaha!
Me too!
Wow. That is harsh! Not saying it’s undeserved, but still….
Yeah, I guess it is. But not by the village’s standards!
What a blood bath ;).
It sounds like one of the villages holiday makers in horror movies are always finding themselves stuck in…
Twisted, but I liked it.
Thanks Craig! Yep, I will admit I had B-movie ads in my head when I wrote this.
Good heavens, this one hits the reader like a face slap. But don’t all the best bits of writing do that? Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Donald! Glad it hit you.
Concise and twisted. Where did it come from? I bet the same place all the gritty little tales that tickle our fancy. I’m glad the village enjoyed a good meal.
I don’t really know where it came from. Maybe the result of an hour spent watching creepy youtube videos the previous week.
As to what Jen and John said, I’m pretty sure this covers Pride and Wrath as well! It’s like a whole gamut of sins!
I guess it does! LOL Thanks Icy!
Wow. That was dark, Sonia. I guess community justice can be a bit gruesome.
Yeah. Truthfully, I think this is one of the darkest things I’ve ever written.
[via Shakespeare] discretion is the better part of valor…..
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and don’t worry about the dark popping out from time to time….better to let it flow out as fiction than to act it out…. hee…
that is the perfect quote!
Yeah, also, free of jail time. Thanks!
Hi there Sonia — I’m intrigued to know what’s on the daytime cookery channel: adulterer foie gras? Much dark goodness. St.
lol That’s funny. Thanks.