Just Delicious

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Just Delicious

• Scary Stories 3
• More Tales to Chill Your Bones
• Collected and Retold by
• Alvin Schwartz

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• George Flint loved to eat. Each day at noon he
  closed his camera shop for two hours and went
  home for a big lunch his wife Mina cooked for
  him. George was a bully, and Mina was a timid
  woman who did everything he asked because she was
  afraid of him.
• On his way home for lunch one day, George
  stopped at the butcher shop and bought a pound of
  liver. He loved liver. He would have Mina cook it
  for dinner that night. Despite all his complaints
  about her, she was a very good cook.

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• While George ate his lunch, Mina told him that a
  rich old woman in town had died. Her body was in
  the church next door. It was in an open coffin.
  Anyone who wanted to see her could. As usual,
  George was not interested in what Mina had to
  say. Ive got to get back to work, he told her.
• After he left, Mina began to cook the liver. She
  added vegetables and spices and simmered it all
  afternoon, just the way George liked it. When she
  thought it was done, she cut off a small piece
  and tasted it. It was delicious, the best she had
  ever made. She ate a second piece. Then a third.
  It was so good, she could not stop eating it.

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• It was only when the liver was all gone that she
  thought of George. He would be coming home soon.
  What would he do when he found that she eaten all
  of the liver? Some men would laugh-but not
  George. He would be angry and mean, and she did
  not want to face that again. But where could she
  get another piece of liver that late in the day?
• Then she remembered the old woman lying in the
  church next door waiting to be buried
• George said he never had a better dinner. Have
  some liver, Mina, he said. Its just
  delicious.
• Im not hungry, she said. You finish it.

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• That night, after George had fallen asleep, Mina
  sat in bed trying to read. But all she could
  think about was what she had done. Then she
  thought she heard a womans voice.
• Who has my liver? it asked. Who has it?
• Was it her imagination? Was she dreaming?
• Now the voice was closer. Who has my liver? it
  asked. Who has it?
• Mina wanted to run. No, no, she whispered. I
  dont have it. I dont have your liver.
• Now the voice was right next to her. Who has my
  liver? it asked. Who has it?
• Mina froze in terror. She pointed to George.
  He does, she said. He has it!
• Suddenly the light went out-and George screamed
  and screamed.