Meat Loaf for One

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.

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Ed Friedman

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Ed’s prose has been seen in Flash Fiction Magazine, Bright Flash Literary Review, Fleas on the Dog, The Haven, Crow’s Feet, Center for Creative Writing, Submittable, Door is a Jar, the Bronx Memoir Project Vols. I, III, and VI, Shady Grove Literary, Fresh Words, and Libretto Magazine. His plays have been staged throughout the New York metropolitan area, and around the country. His anthology Short Plays for Long Lives is published by Blue Moon Press.

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