Catherine Corey

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“The Backlit Butcher ” by Catherine Corey

Submitted to Contest #242

His apron hung like a leather sheet over his swollen rounded belly.Pasty white skin and thinning black oily hair framed his faced in the shadows of the canvas.A small light hung on a broken chain from a dirty drop ceiling, its faint glow illuminated its surroundings.Yet the butchers face remained in the shadows.He leaned over his cuts of meat, thick arms with chunky fingers held a large cleaver.Blood ran down a hard stainless steel table off a dark stained wooden chopping block and pooled on a hard tile floor.The pool of blood was bright red...

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