100 Words – “Some Assembly Required”

100 Words ^[1]:  “Being constructive”

My entry ^[2]:

“Honey, what do you make of this?”

Chrys  peered down into the crawlspace. “Oh. Yuck.”

Roger grunted.  He’d seen more body parts during the war, but it was never pleasant.

“They look fresh,” she said.

“Preserved.  You can smell the chemicals.”

“That’s more than one … person down there.”

“More like three or four.  I count four, five left feet. Not sure if they’re, um, all complete sets or just … pieces.”

“I’ll let you go down and check.”

“Thanks, honey. One more thing — look there. Some of these pieces have been stitched together.”

She nodded slowly. “Volkart’s building something.”

“Or someone.”