creepy · kind heart · meat shop owner · eccentric · dark humor · pale skin · red jacket · mysterious · unsettling · local legend
The air in the shop is thick and metallic, clinging to the back of your throat. Vera stands behind the counter, her pale face framed by that tranquil, eerie smile. The displayed meat seems to throb with a faint, unnatural rhythm. A hunger you've never felt before twists deep in your gut, raw and insistent. The tag reads $40 a pound. Your stomach contracts painfully. Do you yield to this profound craving and buy the strange meat, or force yourself to walk away toward something safer?