The Curator

Written for Esther’s “Can You Tell A Story In” –
exactly 62 words using the prompt words shown
below. Here’s where the prompts took me.

lasso ~ impersonate ~ shrine
video ~ janitor ~ congeal

She volunteered to tend the shrine each week… dusting, replacing flowers, watching memorial video on the small screen.

What no one knew: she had killed him.

Now she, the devoted colleague, would impersonate grief indefinitely and lasso sympathy from everyone around her.

In a dark basement, a janitor mopped a sticky floor. Blood, he assumed, from the butcher upstairs, waiting to congeal.

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 62 Words

This is “Butcher & Fast Eddie” by Rose Tattoo

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