Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Hairball

The main character is a weird woman named Kat. She has an operation to take out a tumor and asks the doctor to save it for her. He puts it in a jar and fills it with a preserving chemical. The tumor is big and has a hairlike look on it. She takes it home and puts it on the mantelpiece and named it Hairball. She has a boyfriend who is her boss at work. He has cheated on his wife with her before. Ger tells her he needs to meet her at work so she goes to meet him and he tells her that the board of directors have fired her and gave her job to him. She goes home and checks the mail. She finds an invitation to a drinks party that is the next night. She gets mad thinking about what has happened and slowly gets angry at Ger. The next day, she goes to a fancy chocolate store and buys a big box of expensive chocolates. She goes home and takes Hairball out of the jar and pours out the chemical. She wraps Hairball in Saran Wrap and tinfoil and then in pink tissue papers. She thinks it is her gift, valuable and dangerous. She writes a short note on the card. When the time is right, she calls a delivery taxi to deliver it to Ger's house. She imagines what will happen when they discover the surprise. I think it is a weird story because she kept the tumor then uses it to get back at her lover.

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