FF – Hors d’oeuvres
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by J Hardy Carroll.
I had no time today to even think of a story and was beginning to panic, but fortunately this occurred to me on the way home, thinking of that strange thing at the upstairs window…
Copyright J Hardy Carroll
“A beautiful location, miles from anywhere.”
“It is beautiful!”
“Notice the brickwork, the original windows…”
“Oh my, yes! And what’s that up there, it looks like OH MY GOD IT’S A SEVERED HEAD!”
“No, no, of course it’s not…”
“SEVERED HEAD! SEVERED HEAD!”
“I’m sure it’s just left over from Halloween.”
“SEVERED… do you really think so?”
“Realistic but clearly fake.”
“Oh, I feel so silly!”
“Nonsense, not at all. Listen, the owners are friends of mine. I’m sure they’d love to… have you for dinner.”
“Oh, lovely! Will there be hors d’oeuvre?”
“Lady, you are the… um, yes.”
“Lovely!”
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Oh dear, she walked right into that one!
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With both eyes open!
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One of your best! She’ll be served with fava beans and a nice chianti! 😀
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I’d love to recreate that thing Anthony Hopkins does with his mouth at this point but I have no idea how to type it 🙂
I’m glad you liked it!
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Oh dear…Poor lady so easily swayed… and served, apparently…
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If only she’d picked up on all the warning signs 🙂
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Yikes! Run! 🙂
Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos
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Too late 🙂
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Can I skip the wine and have a beer please? With a nice head on it!
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Ha ha groan 🙂
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Any idea what that object actually is? I have no idea. Have an excellent rest of the week!
Neil Scheinin
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No – I zoomed in on it but couldn’t make it out!
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Yeah, when someone tells me that they’d love to have me for dinner, I politely refuse the invitation….
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Very wise. People should be more careful with their phrasing…
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She should have run with the first cry of “SEVERED HEAD”
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That was certainly her first mistake!
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Oh my goodness, still laughing. You are very witty especially for a spur of the moment story! 🙂
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I’m glad you liked it! I usually just need an idea to get me going, that’s the tricky bit 🙂
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Lately I’ve started a notebook on story ideas to draw from. It is the most tricky part. =)
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I wish I was that organised. All I can ever remember the next day was that I had a great idea, I wonder what it was… 🙂
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No!! You need a notebook too (haha).
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Dark humour, made me grin
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Good, that was the plan!
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I don’t know how you come up witht these on the spur of the moment.
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Once I saw the severed head, there were a million possibilities!
Comedy dialogue is (for me, anyway) much easier and faster than clever in-depth stuff 🙂
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I like the way you shock us with “SEVERED HEAD!”, calm us down again, and then sneakily introduce cannibalism. Nicely done!
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It was a real rollercoaster! I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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I wonder who’s for dessert? Nice one
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That approaching hiker is looking pretty good…
I’m glad you liked it!
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Hehehe, poor woman, she should have run right away. Now it’s too late. Great fun, I love it.
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Far, far too late 🙂 I’m glad you liked it!
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Good one! Really good one! Poor woman, too dense to realize she’s the appetizer. hehe!
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Hopefully they’ll at least give a nice glass of wine first 🙂 I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Gack! Run!!!! Oops. Too late. Love this one, although I’m glad I’m not her.
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I’m sure if you were her, you would have run!
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Dear Ali,
Oops. Guess who’s coming to dinner? Leave it to you to turn the prompt on its ear. Well done. Gotta go now, can’t stay for the hors-doeuvres. 😉
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
A lot of people reckoned it was a hornets’ nest, but I know the chilling truth 🙂 I’m glad you liked it!
Ali
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Yikes! She better run. I was laughing all the way through.
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It might be too late, but I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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well, i guess it’s too late to save herself. she might as well enjoy the ride. 🙂
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Maybe she’ll at least get a last meal 🙂
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A lovely literary martini with a twist. 🙂
So many of these prompts seem to bring out the murders among us. I’m not sure I’d want to meet any of us in a dark alley – or dining room. 😉
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We are a pretty scary bunch, it’s true 🙂
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I think I’d quickly find another appointment. Creepy.
— Suzanne
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I fear it may be too late… 🙂
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What a waste! If you’re going to eat a person, you should eat the whole thing and not just throw the head out to be pecked at by the birds…
This also reminded me of a story my Dad would always tell me and my sisters when we were kids. There was a gas (petrol) station in town that had a plastic head of a bald man with a mustache that sat in the front window… for what reason, I can’t explain. But he always told us every time we drove by it that head belonged to someone who tried to drive off without paying for their gas. Like with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, we believed it because Dad would never lie to us! It really took a loooong time for me to finally convince myself he’d made up that story!
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I bet you always paid for your petrol, though!
Hey, the birds get to eat too…
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Yikes!
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Yikes indeed!
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She should have run at “severed head!” Good story!
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She should indeed. I’m glad you liked it!
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🙂
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Great dialogue. Love the loopy lady. Fun story.
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Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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First, she’s jumping to conclusions by yelling “severed head” repeatedly, and then she’s easily persuaded that it’s fake, and finally, she agrees to be eaten! She certainly doesn’t have a good head on her shoulders. 😉
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Not for much longer anyway heh heh 🙂
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Yeah, serious case of scrambled brain going on here. She was way too easily convinced.
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She was, poor woman.
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OMC she’s not aware what’s behind…or what’s in the hors d’oevre…🙀😺Extra Pawkisses🐾😽💞
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She’ll soon be in the hors d’oevres 🙂
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You have to be clever to be a cannibal
Enjoyable read.
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And these people are way too clever. I’m glad you liked it!
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I presume when they go in there will be a very old and creepy butler to greet them. Nicely done
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Ha, makes me think of Riff Raff from Rocky Horror show!
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Yummy!
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Seconds, any one? 🙂
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😀 😀
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It is so easy to be beguiled by a promise of free dinner and Hors d’oeuvre. Watch out, people!
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Free food? Count me in!
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