Butter knife

As you walk into Mary Heff’s kitchen the first thing you notice is a tub of butter placed in the middle of the counter.

As you step closer you notice a rusty old butterknife sticking precariously out of the tub of butter.

You pull back the slippery lid and see a pool of blood slithering on top of what little butter remained, and there in the blood sits a human heart, still pumping...

Possibilities

1 Mary Heff was killed by her husband, a surgeon, because he loved another woman. He sliced out her heart with a rusty butter knife, and put it in the tub of butter. Whoever sees the heart will have a horrible love life.

2 While scooping through the tub of butter, poor, depressed Mr. Heff ‘lost his heart’. He cut away the only artery that attached him to it. Then he kept it in the tub and put it in the freezer. He decided to take it out and give his heart to a lady who he loved more than his wife. But Mrs. Heff saw it and she shot him in his head.

3 Mrs. Heff loved another man. She found that this man was in love with a much finer lady than herself. In anger Mrs. Heff cut off, and stole the heart of the young man, and kept it with her in a cool butter tub. Now the man can`t love anybody else, other than her.

© Sakuni Egodawatte