I Read Stories: Game by Ellie Broughton

Game by Ellie Broughton in Wild Hunt

The narrator is fascinated by a woman from her interesting Instagram food-centred stories and meets her and they hit it off. She’s from a rich family in Suffolk, and she started off working in their butchers but now she makes vegan charcuterie. She doesn’t miss most meat but wild, organic muscle mass, as found on game, maybe that's a loss.

There’s a few warning signs. She wrote about Brexit, characterising the gangs of fruit pickers near her home in Southwold as a chain-gang. A friend notes that a former boyfriend of hers just vanished. And despite this they go to visit her.

This won’t, quite, end the way we think it might.

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