The legs of pork

(fanfiction on “The Leg of Lamb”l)

By Noelia T. Moni

 

Mary Malooney was a polite, shy and obsessive woman. She would control her relatives’ behaviour. She was living with her recently born baby and her brother in a big house where she used to live with her husband. After her husband died, she felt realy alone so his brother moved to her house. 

It was a Thursday midnight when Mary Malooney comited the crime. Her brother was a heavy drinker. Someone who liked listening to music on full volume. Certainly, Mary Malooney felt it really unconfortable for her child, but she was not able to ask her brother to turn the volume down. Because of that she put up with her brother and his music. Though the thing she hated the most was the fact that her brother did not eat the food she cooked for him. In fact he prefered to drink beer instead of eating. 

That midnight, Mary was waiting for her brother anxiously. She wanted to offer him a meal,  in order to ask him  not to disturb her and the baby with the music, but also to try to convince him of the importance of a healthier way of living.  Before her brother had arrived home, Mary’s baby had fallen asleep. She took some minutes to do the housework. When Mary’s brother came into the house, he sat down on a chair. Mary made the drinks, a strong one for him and a weak one for herself. She knew he did not want to speak much after the first drink was finished. The woman waited for some minutes and said  to him, ‘Brother, I do not know how to say that I would you...’. But she could not finish her sentence because her brother stood up, went to the refrigerator and took a bottle of beer. The man returned to the living room and turned on the stereo. After he sat down, Mary told him that she was going to prepare a delicious meal, but he did not want to dinner. Meanwhile he continued  drinking beer from the bottle. 

 On that moment Mary went downstairs to the freezer, put her hands inside and took a bag with frozen legs of pork. She carried the bag upstairs. Then went to the living room, swung the frozen bag with legs of pork “high in the air and brough it down on the back of his head”. Mary´s brother collapsed on the floor a few seconds later. After that Mary ran hurriedly to her bedroom, lifted her baby, tidied her face, tried to smile and went to the supermarket. There she bougth some vegetables to cook  dinner and came back home. When Mary entered her house and saw her brother corpse lying on the floor, she began to shout and cry. Later, she went to the phone and called the same policeman that had called when her husband died. After that, Mary Malooney placed the legs of pork on a roasting pan, “turned the cooker high, and put the pan inside.” 

Finally, an hour later the police arrived. They were looking for a weapon but, as in Mary’s husband murder, it could not be found. The police thought that Mary killed her brother. Till the employees of the supermarket declared she was buying vegetables an hour and a half ago. Because of that Mary was declared not guilty.