Week 9 Reading: Stories from the Congo, Part A

This is such a short story, but I think that I could write an interesting version of this little tale
Maybe a microfiction or just a story with a low word count. I like that a lot happens in such a short amount of time.
The couple is getting into an argument! It seems to be a silly argument-- It's over the amount of palm-nuts.
It's hard for me to understand the dialogue--but the man is forcing the wife to go with him into the woods (for palm-nuts).
This is where is gets violent, so I'm going to quickly summarize without a lot of detail

I thought that this story might be okay with the husband killing his wife
Like she disobeyed, so it was okay.
BUT no:) The husband is punished for his crime
He is burned on a fire, while the smoke is used to dry his wife's body
So I don't really want to write this story
But I wanted to think about a cool way to add to it
What if the wife dies before other people find out about what happened
She can either haunt the husband (and make him crazy) or drive the townsfolk to discover her/ what happened to her!
That way it would fit into my portfolio (strange things in a strange town)
I would keep the petty argument, but make it more modern (of course)
The story is about murder, but I would probably make it a bit longer (it's only 400 words)
I can work on making it spooky
The wife is hard headed and the husband is a sneaky jerk.

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