Short Horror Story: Meal

“I never understood why humans found eating human flesh to be repulsive,” the man stated while staring gleefully at his guests. “You all seem to have thoroughly enjoyed your meal,” he continued. A deep and lingering silence flooded the room as the guests sat at the dinner table in disbelief. A soft but obnoxious chuckle from a woman sitting two chairs from the man on his right side filled the once silent room. Her chuckle seemed to have infected the rest of the guest causing the room to quickly be congested with the insolent sound. The woman followed with an incredulous tone “Come on Arnold, you don't expect us to believe that you just fed us human meat”. A fellow male guest accompanied her concerns stating “Be realistic Jessie. Arnold wouldn't do such a thing. Besides where the hell would he even get human meat he...”. “The cattle for this magnificent meal and future meals are all around us. We're overpopulating the Earth that we're constantly destroying. Besides, thinning our numbers isn't such a bad idea, and some would call it an environmental achievement”, Arnold stated while gently dabbing his lips with his napkin.  Arnold's unsavory utterance generated hysteria amongst his guest.

The gentleman that's sitting across from Arnold at the end of the table attempted to shield his mouth with his hands; as the horror started to set in and spread across his face. Even with his hands over his mouth, he couldn't contain the vomit that began to spew out of his mouth onto the table. The vomit managed to travel onto his lap, and onto Jessie's shoes sitting next to him. “What the fuck is wrong with you Denis? Richard just said be realistic. Arnold is just busting our balls,” Jessie shrieked in revulsion. Denis continued to cough and bend over violently next to the table. “I can't help it, besides, look at his face, Jessie. Do you spot any signs that he isn't telling the truth and he didn’t feed us human meat,” Denis uttered in between his coughing. Richard violently got out of his chair and lunged at Arnold punching him in the face. Richard’s punch caused Arnold to fall backward with his chair and taking part of the tablecloth and dinnerware with him. Arnold remained on the floor for a few minutes while wiping his bloody nose. “I thought he invited Mable, why isn’t she here?” Denis asked as he slowly got up from the table with a petrified look on his face. “Aren’t you happy she isn’t here to endure this shit,” Richard shouted as he slammed his bruised fist on the table.

This caused Arnold to burst out into a manic laughter as he sat up with a feral look on his face. “She came a few hours earlier. I asked her too. Her body was 30 percent body fat which was perfect for tonight’s meal. Don’t worry she didn’t suffer too much,” Arnold condescendingly stated. “You monster…” Jessie screamed before she started to feel lightheaded. Jessie started to lose control of her mobility and fell to her knees. As she looked around she noticed that Richard and Denis also started to look as though they couldn’t move. “What the fuck did you do to us?” Denis asked softly as he started to crumple face first onto the ground. “You won’t get away with this. People will start looking for us. Some people know that we are here,” Richard stated in a subdued manner as he slid down the table onto his side on the floor.

Arnold’s face became cold and vexed. “I was hoping that at least one out of the three of you would understand the need to venture into such delicacies, but, I can’t say that I’m surprised by your idiotic responses. It’s a customary credence that humans have against consuming one another. But, then if we all just took a moment to withdraw from such childish restrictions the dinner table would become so much more intriguing,” Arnold bellowed as he started to move their bodies. Richard attempted to swing his arms one last time in order to stop Arnold as he picked up Jessie’s limp body, but, his fingers were the only part of his body that moved slightly. “Don’t worry Richard she’s fine for now. It’s only a little bit of Ketamine that I placed in each wine glasses for each person I invited tonight,” Arnold stated as he placed his left foot onto one of the tiles that looked a bit out of place. This tile opened a room that appeared to be a large freezer. Arnold than walked into this dimly light freezer room and tossed Jessie’s body onto Mable’s frozen corpse.

This expansion was inspired by my two-sentenced short here’s the link: https://redd.it/7os02x