The Condemned by Claire Jolliff

Author:Claire Jolliff [Jolliff, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-01-10T06:00:00+00:00

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Leci stood with her hands on her hips, surveying the meal on the table. She had to admit to being pretty damn pleased with herself. She and Morgan had done a good job with what limited supplies they had had.

The door to the cabin stood wide open, every board had been ripped down to try and give the place a good airing. The smell was still there, Leci had a feeling it would never be gone entirely, but she no longer had to struggle to keep from bringing back whatever was in her stomach.

Setting a fire in the stove seemed to have helped a little, the smell of burning wood was quite nicely masking the scent of rotted flesh and giving a more homely atmosphere to the cabin.

They had searched through the cans of food that were stored on the shelves. Some had no labels on them and some were badly dented but most were in good condition. They had opened a few of the unlabeled ones but had mostly been disappointed; one tin of small carrots, one tin of something unnameable that smelled almost as bad as the body had, two of the ones they opened were empty except for small piles of ash like powder, as though the contents had simply disintegrated over time. The dented ones were no more use, the girls quickly learned that if the exterior of the tin was damaged then something on the inside would’ve corrupted the contents long ago and left a slimy reddish coloured mess on the inside.

Still, many of the labelled ones proved fruitful and Leci couldn’t help admitting that the cabin was truly a find. It was like hitting the jackpot and as she began to feel more comfortable working alongside Bitsy to create something as close to an edible meal as possible for the four of them she found herself enjoying it and looking forward to the days ahead.

She had found a large tin with a picture of a dog on it and Morgan had told her that the writing above the animal said ‘Dog Meat in Gravy’. Leci wasn’t sure she had ever eaten dog before but there was a first time for everything and so she had punctured the tin with her knife, draining the contents into one of the metal containers they had found stored inside a cupboard along with some crude eating utensils.

The dog meat didn’t smell too bad at all, the gravy looked thin and watery and there were green things floating in it, but the chunks of meat looked passable enough, they had a pleasing, meaty aroma to them that was actually quite mouth watering.

Around the rear of the cabin, Beriael had found a barrel that was just under halfway filled with scummy, green looking water. Morgan had filled the cooking pot and brought it back in, they had boiled it over the stove until it looked relatively clean and had poured in a range of tinned vegetables; peas, carrots, corn, tomatoes, and beans to create a broth that didn’t look too unappetising.

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