The Severed Arm

A young medical student is living in halls at her university, along with a bunch of other doctors-in-training. For one reason or another, this young nurse is not particularly popular. She's always bitching and arguing, and her flatmates have had enough of it. One night, they decide to sort her out. They'll play a trick on her, a nasty one. Maybe it'll scare her into being a bit nicer, or maybe it'll just scare her. Her flatmates don't really care; they're so sick of her by now that they just want some payback.

So, they get in touch with one of their friends who's doing work experience in a surgery. The friend agrees to secretly fetch them the severed arm of one of the patients at the surgery. Normally that kind of stuff would be incinerated, but the friend reckons she can sneak it out.

She does. Arriving back one night she presents to them a severed arm in a cooler bag.

So the flatmates hide away their surprise gift and wait for their young victim to get back home. She arrives, and is as bitchy and unpleasant as usual. They wait until she turns in, then quietly sneak into her room and place the arm beside her on the bed. They sneak out again. Now all the remains is for them to wait until the morning.

The next day they're all up extra early. They wait around outside her room, expecting any second to hear the girl's screams as she discovers the gruesome present. But there's nothing. They wait and wait, but even long after the time when she'd usually be up, there's not a sound from her room.

Getting worried now, they knock on her door. When there's no reply, they let themselves in. She's awake all right, and she's discovered the arm. But now her hair has turned pure white, and she's sitting on the edge of the bed with the severed limb in her hands, shaking softly. She looks insane, shocked out of her mind. Eyes wide open, she's chewing on the arm.