Her Wusthof fillet knife slices effortlessly through the silver-scaled belly. Out slides bloody guts, pooling on her granite worktop. She can’t feed the entrails to the dog; too undignified for a majestic wild salmon. Instead, she’ll make a stock.
The fish is presented on a huge platter, whole, surrounded by steamed vegetables with a home-made Hollandaise on the side; a fitting mound, she hopes, for a creature who spent years maturing, navigating and surviving in the sea she pays a yearly subscription to help save.
Within minutes, her family has drifted away from the table leaving chunks of uneaten fish behind. Not hungry mum, too fishy mum, any yogurts mum? She stares at the salmon’s black eye and mouths the word ‘sorry’.
Georgina Downes is a busy, working single mum. Free-lance writer of business/tourism articles and websites. Her first love is film. The dream is to have a screenplay produced.
Enter our flash fiction competition here, to win cash prizes and publication.
Submit to our Fiction123 here.
Discover more from Cranked Anvil
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Cranked Anvil 