Mary Maloney, a pregnant young woman, waits for her husband Patrick to return home from his job as a detective for the local police. When he returns, Mary notices that he is strangely aloof and assumes that he has had trouble at work. After blatantly ignoring her, Patrick finally confesses his intent to leave her.

In shock at the news, and seemingly in a trance, Mary fetches a large leg of lamb from the refrigerator to cook for their dinner. Then Mary gets told to stop the routine and not make him dinner, and she snaps, bludgeoning Patrick in the back of the head with the frozen lamb leg, killing him. After pacing the room, Mary realizes that she must conceal her crime. She prepares the leg of lamb and places it in the oven. Then, after practicing a cheerful routine, she heads out to the store to buy some vegetables for her roast. When she gets back, she enters the room where she killed her husband and calls the police.

When the police arrive, they question Mary and survey the......

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Title: Lamb To Slaughter
Approximate Word Count: 276
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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