Eerie Indiana Drabble: Live off the Land
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The 666H Club had, once again, violated the laws of nature, and nature was, once again, understandably very annoyed about it.
Marshall Teller pressed himself tight against a bank of lockers as a bunch of man-sized carrots - or perhaps carrots that had once been men? - rampaged past, filling the small corridor with the coppery tang of spilled blood and the loamy scent of newly-turned earth.
"How did they make a problem this big out of a vegetable plot the size of a wardrobe?" he very quietly marvelled.
"They are taught to do more with less," Simon offered in a whisper.
Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc
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Marshall Teller pressed himself tight against a bank of lockers as a bunch of man-sized carrots - or perhaps carrots that had once been men? - rampaged past, filling the small corridor with the coppery tang of spilled blood and the loamy scent of newly-turned earth.
"How did they make a problem this big out of a vegetable plot the size of a wardrobe?" he very quietly marvelled.
"They are taught to do more with less," Simon offered in a whisper.
Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc
( Read more... )