Food and
drink play a pivotal role in several of the 14 dark tales contained within my
collection, Blanket of White:
In the
title story, husband and wife drink coffee in their kitchen, wrapping their
hands around the mugs for comfort, as they discuss their wheelchair-bound daughter
Suzy; there are snow angels in her future…
“Raven’s
Revenge”: Steaming mugs of hot chocolate warm up Jackie Crawford and her boyfriend, Jeff Dutton, on a
bone-chilling winter’s night.
“Perishables”: After a nuclear attack, Placido
Sanchez sits hunkered down in his basement surrounded by empty, dented cans of
baked beans. He eats his wife Julia’s remains, flawlessly persevered in a
walk-in freezer. His wife's thighs contained the sweetest meat he ever tasted.
The
potent rum cocktail Zombie is Jack Masoch’s undoing in “Cold Comfort” after he
meets Sadie O'Grady in a seedy New York City bar.
David Sheffield feasts on Chinese food that sustains him and
brings him good fortune on “Initiation Day”, when he meets up with Jim Hanson
by the train tracks behind their high school to carry out a dangerous dare.
In “Crosshairs”, Billy Hogan’s father swigs single-malt
whiskey at the kitchen table as his son drinks root beer while the elder
Hogan schools the younger one about the striking seminaries between handling a
woman and a gun.
“Apple of My Eye”: Gia orders Chardonnay to dull her senses
after going a few rounds with Daddy’s carving knife. A Martini is the drink of
choice for a devious Eye Doctor who sets his sights on the wrong girl…
Thanks for stopping by to share your food for thought, Amy!
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