People Eating

By Ed Bemand

Tastes of the other, other white meat. A selection of short fiction, covering one of the last great taboos, cannibalism. Contains explicit and disturbing content.

Stories include:
Pork, in which a poor girl overcomes the unfortunate circumstances of her forced marriage.
The peculiar request for a last meal made by notorious cannibal and murderer Herr Van Der Slaach.
Whoresmeat, where a beleaguered wage-slave questions what his boss is putting in his burgers to make them taste so good.

Persistent scribbler of strange and obscene things, Ed Bemand was born and raised in Guildford, UK. His first novel Beheld was published in 2006. He is also the author of other works including Sinful Submissions, Succumbing and Hannah's Story. He currently lives in Cardiff. His hobbies include loud noises, simulated violence, aimless wandering and morbid introspection.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ed Bemand
• Release date: Aug 4, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310101601

Ed Bemand

Persistent scribbler of strange and obscene things, Ed Bemand was born and raised in Guildford, England. At school he wasn’t voted anything. Absence of a better plan and a strong desire to be somewhere else led him at eighteen to commence three years of loose association with a university, to mutual dissatisfaction. The relationship came to a bitter close and he was subjected to stern lectures about the value of hard work and the necessity of earning an honest living. His lack of useful skills or qualifications left him unable to, so he started working in sales. During the next few years he sold such diversities as IT equipment, insurance, double-glazing and ID cards. His first novel Beheld was published in 2006 but it failed to make him either successful or wealthy, so wage-slavery continued. After a decade of gainful employment he was only too happy to cast aside the shackles of respectability in favour of writing full-time. For the last few years he has lived in Cardiff, Wales with a girl and a dog. His hobbies include loud noises, simulated violence, aimless wandering and morbid introspection.

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People Eating

Tastes of the other, other white meat

by

Ed Bemand

Smashwords Edition

Copyright Ed Bemand 2013.

All rights reserved.

www.EdBemand.co.uk

This story should be considered a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

Warning, this collection includes graphic sexual and disturbing content and is intended for adults only. All characters depicted in sexual acts are eighteen years of age or older.

Contents

Introduction

Should you ever be lost...

Pork

Gustav’s last meal

Whoresmeat

Shopping list no.47

About the author

Introduction

For all those who have wondered how best to serve their fellow man.

The stories in this collection share common subject matter, that of one of society’s last great taboos, partaking of the other, other white meat. Cannibalism, or anthropophagy if you prefer Classical etymology.

People are usually driven to it for a few reasons, either they wish to absorb the powers of the one they are eating, be they vanquished victim or esteemed relative, or they are driven to it by desperation. The grim reality of starvation has forced many to look to the only source of food that is available and it has been argued that it is legal and appropriate, that