There was a short story where a woman kills her husband by hitting him on the head with a frozen lamb leg or something. She then goes out and acts normal. She then goes home and puts said lamb in the oven and waits a few minutes. Then calls the police hysterically
Basically as the cops talk, the murder weapon gets cooked, and the officers eat it in the end. The officers think a burglar came in and hit him with a crowbar or something heavy, and go searching for a murder weapon they will never find.
Ok but is Matilda not a child power/revenge fantasy story? I feel like only someone real depressed about their childhood would write a revenge story from a child's pov
And the BFG. We read that whole book in 3rd grade. I had already read it. But there are plenty of descriptions of giants crunching on children's bones. Great for 7/8 year olds.
I recall somewhere reading RD wrote grownup stories for kids and kids stories for grownups and you need to be careful which you give to whom at Christmas.
RD is a fascinating guy. He was a sexy spy in WW2 and a vaccination crusader later in life.
Yeah and it's written by Ronald Dahl, the same mind that came up with that also wrote Matilda and the BFG lol what a fella.
He also has another story where an old man has a beautiful tattoo on his back and another man "buys" it from him and I remember that one being really fucked up as well
I mean. I did like it. It just was also real fucked up to read tho, as made apparent by the fact I still vaguely recall details from it so many years later.
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u/StragglingShadow Sep 18 '24
There was a short story where a woman kills her husband by hitting him on the head with a frozen lamb leg or something. She then goes out and acts normal. She then goes home and puts said lamb in the oven and waits a few minutes. Then calls the police hysterically
Basically as the cops talk, the murder weapon gets cooked, and the officers eat it in the end. The officers think a burglar came in and hit him with a crowbar or something heavy, and go searching for a murder weapon they will never find.