David Oliver

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“Fresh Meat on the Rocks” by David Oliver

Submitted to Contest #290

Fresh Meat on the Rocks “Can I have ten Benson’s as well please?” I ask, placing a tin of chicken soup on the counter. The shop bloke takes it and scans the barcode, placing the cigarettes next to them and totting the whole lot up on his till.“That’ll be ninety-eight pence please.”I don’t really want the soup, not yet, that need will come later and isn’t as urgent as the desire for nicotine. The papers on the counter talk of a royal wedding, not the future king but one of his brothers. I don’t know much about it, that sort of thing was never...

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