Translate

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Today's #flashfiction #ThankfulForThanksgiving

Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.”
Walt Disney* #quote


         Thanksgiving is tomorrow(or today depending on when you read this, you may be signed up through email or something. Ah reading posts on the Internet can be a bit like time travel eh?) so I am excited to see family. Anyway onto the flash fiction!

Thankful For Thanksgiving

      My turkey brothers and sisters on the farm look up to the sky and see nightfall. Thanksgiving is coming and will pass. We all thank the heavens that Thanksgiving is here. We have our cornmeal dinner the night before and pray to a lucky next year.
       Why would a turkey be thankful for Thanksgiving? It is not Thanksgiving season we are thankful for. That is when the farmers send us to the slaughter. No it is the coming passing of Thanksgiving day. Not being picked for the slaughter. There are very few of us left after Thanksgiving season so we count ourselves lucky to be the last standing. At most the farmer will take one of us for dinner, but he usually never touches us since we are meant to be shipped off to the store. He also tired of our meat before I was even born because of his occupation.
       So another year, another time of mass slaughter passing. Now the amount of us taken will go back down and it'll feel more safe around the farm.

No comments:

Post a Comment