3 Deadly Drabbles - Deadly Sins

Gluttony, envy, and sloth explored

MUKBANG

His numbers were not just beginning to plateau; they were beginning to drop. While the income he received from his live mukbang’s were not yet dropping, it was only a matter of time.

There were plenty of other options out there, most of whom were upping the ante in what they ate. He was far from a picky eater, but some of the exotic stuff turned his stomach.

He groaned as he hears his father chasing after his little brother, shouting, “I’m going to eat you all up.”

That was when the idea began to take shape in his mind.

LOVE THY NEIGHBOR

“Tell me again what it is you want,” the dark-eyed man said.

Gil looked at the man sitting across from him at the dining room table and shuddered. He had no doubt that the stranger could give him everything he so desired. He’d heard the stories and knew it to be true, but the cost scared him.

Nodding across the street at the bigger house, the better car, and the hotter wife, he said, “Everything he has.”

The dark-eyed man smirked and slid the contract across the table, which Gil gladly signed.

“Done. Everything is yours, including the terminal cancer.”

FEEDING TUBE

The machine rattled and hissed as it continued to pump liquid foods into Edwin’s stomach. The smell in the room was growing steadily worse by the day, and he’d already had to pay way above the odds to his doctors and nurses.

Money was not an issue for independently wealth Edwin, but the health of his daughter was. Severely burned in a house fire, she needed multiple skin grafts to repair the damage.

Edwin would continue to consume, growing bigger so that he had more than enough skin to make his little one whole again.

And so, the feeding continued.