The setting was perfect. Candlelight sparked on the elegant wine glasses and smugly heavy cutlery. Waiters in long aprons glided effortlessly between the tables with impossible numbers of plates balanced on their arms, as if they were walking some unseen tightrope.
My waiter placed a bowl in the centre of the exquisitely geometric place setting. Inside the bowl, a crust of ginger fur respired slowly, rising and falling.
I can take a joke as well as the next man. Crouching low, I bit into the succulence of the waiter’s leg.
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Friday fictioneers is a weekly challenge set by Rochelle Wisoff Fields to write a 100-word story in response to a photo prompt. You can find other stories here
Neil MacDonald Author 
I’m sorry I didn’t get it but the descriptions are great.
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Thanks. It’s intended to be surreal
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Dear Neil,
This seems to be a dog’s-eye-view of a swanky dinner party. At any rate, vivid descriptions entertain.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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More a surreal fugue than a dog’s eye view. Thanks so much, Rochelle
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You’ve put me right off my breakfast now! *shudder*
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Sorry
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Haha, I’ll forgive you!
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For a moment I thought you might be in Vegas- where the waiter’s leg may very well be on the menu! hehehehe
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Or the Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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Sounds reads like a scene that could have been lifted out of the film, “The Lobster.”
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Sounds like I should make a point of seeing that
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Your scene would fit right in 🙂
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How did the leg taste?
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Like Long Pig
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I like the scene you’ve painted here, Neil, although I had to read it again to get the scenario. I love the term “crust of ginger fur”. Very descriptive.
-David
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Thanks so much, David
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Was the waiters last name Dali?
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He did have a dramatic moustache
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the plates came falling down, next?
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There was certainly quite a stramash
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When it comes to hunger, food is no joke. Mind you, eating the waiters might be considered premature before dessert is served.
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It does show a distinct lack of breeding
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I am trying to imagine you biting into the writer’s leg. Hope it is not the name of a gourmet dish.
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It should always be cooked with a waiter’s leg because the exercise makes the flesh tender. Writer’s leg runs to fat
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I hope he left a good tip.
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An excellent tip: “Don’t serve that special again”
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LOL
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you lured us in and delivered the punch! I feel like this is an unreliable narrator and the ginger crusted fur dish was indeed not a joke, but neither was biting the waiters leg.
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I may have led you to expect a different ending, I agree
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surreal indeed, and Dali was sitting at the next table near the dropping clock
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Thanks so much, Prior
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;0)
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Ha,ha, this made me laugh Niel – was I suppose to??
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I wouldn’t take exception to a laugh
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🙌😃
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if he thought a leg was food, he’d definitely been hitting the bottle. 🙂
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The wine list of the establishment is impecable
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He seems like someone you don’t want to mess with. Hopefully, the waiter will know better next time. I do love the descriptions in your stories, Neil!
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Thanks so much, Brenda
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I had to switch my brain off at ‘crust of ginger fur’. I see a leg was later involved, so I’m glad I did. Surreal indeed.
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No kittens were harmed in the making of this story
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Enjoyable read, Neil. Left me smiling.
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Thanks so much, Russell
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A Yay! for the description, and a heartfelt Huh? for the meaning.
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Thanks so much. Some things just happen
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Oh my, that’s weird!
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I hope that’s a good thing
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I find this piece most surreal. And that’s a lovely last sentence.
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Thanks so much, Patrick
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Ooooooooo creepy!
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‘Fraid so
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