Sofa From Home

 Challenge - Photo Prompt - Exactly 150 Words

Miles from the nearest road, deep inside the forest, we stumbled on an abandoned sofa.

“The fly-tippers are making an effort round her” chuckled my husband. “Seems like a good spot to stop” he said as he removed our picnic from his rucksack.

I looked for a flat area to lay out the blanket and noticed several piles of small bones, likely from a rat or a squirrel or possibly a fox.

It’d been a long hike and I needed to pee so I headed off into the trees to take care of it.

When I returned I found the picnic all laid out but of my husband there was no sign. I called his name but received no reply.

I waited twenty minutes, but he didn’t return. It was only then that I spotted a new pile of bones in front of the sofa, complete with a human skull 

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