Dead Cows

It's cheaper to buy the whole ones.

She wants to start buying
cows
and storing them in a freezer because
it’s cheaper than buying meat at King Kullen.
“Think how much money we’ll save,”
she says,
“if we buy whole cows off the Internet!”

She gets her measuring tape and marks lines here and there
“If we get those stackable
washer and drier combos...
And take out this counter
then we’ll have room for an industrial-sized
freezer
to store whole cows
and in two to three years,
it’ll pay for itself!”

But she measured wrong,
so now the freezer is in
her step-son’s bedroom and the
dead, skinned cows hang by their feet.
He thinks they watch him sleep.

He thinks they watch him sleep.

Reviews

[Wharton]

Funny, quirky but it does tell the reader something of mania and how what sounds like a great idea sometimes ought to just stay an idea. I liked it!

[yinseriv]

I loved this! It reminded me of a relative I had who stored a butchered pig in his bedroom! True Story!

[Shawna Lea]

I like this. I have to say, I didn't see that ending coming. Poor kid. : I wouldn't want cows hanging in my room!