Eel Soup Disturbing: [hot]

The bowl arrives beige and wrong. Not the creamy beige of chowder, but the flat beige of a sickroom wall.

You swallow once. The soup swallows back. eel soup disturbing

The spoon sinks as if through mud. When you lift it, a long strand of gelatinous meat clings, stretching, stretching—elastic, stubborn, refusing to break. It pulses faintly in the steam. The bowl arrives beige and wrong