Eves by Ryan Licata
He no longer saw them. It was as if they had vanished from the world, and not just his own. The very idea was absurd, after all it was his problem, and the solution offered by the Union, he recalled, had not been quite so final. He supposed that they had altered his vision, removed them from it, transforming them maybe, rendering them unrecognisable. But it wasn’t long before he stopped wondering about them altogether, having become too busy collecting the rib bones he found everywhere on the streets, too preoccupied by his bizarre desire for the meat upon them.
So God caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep. He took one of Adam’s ribs and closed up the place from which he had taken it.Then He made a woman from the rib and brought her to Adam.”At last!” Adam exclaimed. “She is part of my own flesh and bone! She will be called `woman,’ because she was taken out of a man.”
Genesis
Amen.
it took me some time to understand the link between the title and the ribs… but then, it all became quite clear! I like it when stories need to be cracked open like a nut, to get to the actual meaning…