Hershel’s Specialty Meats

A man visits an unusual butcher shop

Shawn Ingram
ILLUMINATION
Published in
3 min readJul 24, 2021

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Photo by Kyle Mackie on UNSPLASH.

The usual suspects are all there, quail, snake, boar, venison, and even buffalo. Each is neatly wrapped in brown wax paper and carefully sealed shut with strips of white butchers tape.

The man’s olfactory senses are on overload. Most people, unaccustomed to the dizzyingly wide array of divergent scents, would describe the sensation…

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Shawn Ingram
ILLUMINATION

Just a guy telling stories. One silver lining of the 2020 pandemic was I started writing!