The svelt duck was sure his meager physique would prevent his untimely slaughter by unscrupulous farmers, yet here he sat with a tube down his throat, being force fed grains, nutrients and oils.
A thousand crows filled the autumn-stripped branches of the tree beside Vernon's house, as if they wanted to blot out Father's window or were guarding some dark secret.
Her bulging sightless eyes, the plate of meaty strings where once dwelt the face I loved; I was certain that these images would haunt me to my last days, but they now seemed trivial against the cold steel terror that seized my spine as I grasped her final words: "I thought it was your turn to feed the duck."
Until those fake cops dropped their tommy guns on the cement of the SMC Cartage Company's garage floor and I heard them leave, I thought a head full of Jack McGurn's lead would've killed me.
"Edgar began--caught between reality and fiction, fact and fantasy, and the internal struggle to comprehend the horrors of the evening that was present in the minds of everyone fleeing in panic or fighting in stubborn and stupid valor, his eyes moving over each of the dark and hungry figures lumbering down the hillside and towards him through the warm breeze of the night--to wet himself."
Ive lived through four days of this shit, being tied and gagged in this basement. Im hurting, hungry, and having a conversation with the toy clown on the stool next to me.
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