Last Date Night Spaghetti
Whitney Trang
Ingredients
1 jar of unopened, unexpired tomato sauce
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 box of pasta
1 cup of unmoldy cheese, grated
1 pound of ground beef that hopefully hasn’t gone rotten. Maybe that smell is coming from you.
8-10 cups of drinkable water (Rain water, bottled water, or water from the stream near the abandoned farmhouse you and your spouse have taken refuge in)
Directions
Wear sunglasses when starting the fire. Your eyes have become quite sensitive since you were infected 16 hours ago.
Boil 8-10 cups of drinkable water in a pot. Add pasta once boiled. Cook for 8-10 minutes.
Use this time to rest. The headaches have increased in frequency and pain. You need a clear head to finish cooking this meal.
Drain pasta and set aside.
Check on your spouse to ensure they are still securely tied to the chair in the dining room. They completed the transformation 8 hours ago.
And they’re hungry.
Add oil to a pan. Add ground beef and cook. Ignore your spouse’s grunts. They don’t like spaghetti, but it’s all the farmhouse has. Besides, you couldn’t give them what they really wanted for dinner.
Add the sauce and pasta once the meat is cooked. Mix to combine.
Plate pasta. When chunks of your own flesh fall onto the plate, leave it be. Decomposition marks the final stage. What does it matter now? At least you’ll get to find out what you taste like.
Add cheese and serve.
Tie your legs to the legs of the chair so you won’t be able to leave the farmhouse after dinner.
Enjoy your final date night with your spouse before the transformation completes and you both hunger for a different kind of meal.
About the author:
Whitney Trang hasn't stopped writing her own stories since learning she could do so in the second grade. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara where she double majored in English and Communication. You can find her on Twitter @wctwrites.
