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                      Meat Loaf for One

                      Published by Edward Friedman at January 20, 2023
                      Categories
                      • Fiction
                      Tags
                      • fiction
                      • food fiction
                      • goodbye
                      • loneliness
                      • meatloaf
                      Meatloaf for one - cover image for flash fiction

                      Image by image bycongerdesign on Pixabay

                      Ingredients

                      • I pound ground beef
                      • 1 white onion
                      • 1 tablespoon soy sauce
                      • 1 can tomato rice soup
                      • 1 egg
                      • Salt and pepper to taste

                      Directions

                      1. Turn on the television set for white noise while cooking. – No Law & Order reruns or anything else that you watched together.
                      2. Combine the ground beef with the soup.
                      3. Use the bowl – the one she got from her grandmother.
                      4. Cut up the onion. Don’t worry. You have no tears left.
                      5. Beat the egg and mix in.
                      6. Forget the soy sauce. – You do have more tears.
                      7. Add salt and pepper, optional. – You can’t taste anything anyway
                      8. Put the meatloaf ingredients into a loaf pan. – The one you bought together at Home Goods.
                      9. Bake meatloaf for 90 minutes, all the while trying to understand why you’re bothering to do this.
                      10. Let the meatloaf cool for 10 minutes.
                      11. Cut into equal portions, wrap with Seran wrap, and put into the freezer in the vain hope you will one day feel like eating again.

                      Need more fiction? Check out these short stories, serialized works, and flash fiction stories from MockingOwl Roost contributors and staff.

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