Ashley's Tale: Making Jake by Mike Duke

Author:Mike Duke [Duke, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-06-08T04:00:00+00:00

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It was late afternoon when they took a break and went outside, Jack leading April over to a large pen attached to an even larger one where numerous pigs of varying sizes were contained, some small some medium but none the size of a full grown hog.

“Sooouuuuu-iiiieeeee!!!” Jack bellowed out. “Time for dinner April!”

Jack threw a deviously charming grin over his shoulder at her as he poured the charcoal into the grill and put some lighter fluid on it along with some smoked apple wood chips.

“I think we’ll start with a small one tonight. Fire up the grill, girl! I’ll skewer the shrimp for the barbie.”

Jack withdrew a very large Bowie style knife from a sheath he had strapped on his hip, twisting it back and forth in the air as he said the word “skewer.”

“You’re going to kill one of those pigs, Jack?” she asked, dropping a match on the charcoal, more than a bit disgusted.

“Yeah,” he responded bluntly. “You think that’s odd? What do you think I do for a living? I kill nearly fifty an hour sometimes. Like an assembly line, they walk ‘em up and ‘BLAM’ I bolt gun ‘em in the head to knock ‘em stiff, then stick a knife this size right through their gullet and lay the aortic arch and heart wide open. Ever heard the phrase ‘Bleeding like a stuck pig’? Where do you think that comes from?”

April’s face blanched pale.

“For the love of God, April, I know you’re a meat eater. You know how it gets to your plate even if you don’t like to think about it. Geez, sit down so you don’t fall out, but you’re about to watch it happen. Except it won’t be knocked out. I couldn’t sneak a bolt gun out of work.”

April plopped down on the ground, her head a little swimmy and pulled both feet to her butt, wrapping her arms tightly around her legs. She looked on the whole time, not wanting to upset Jack. He used a long cattle prod to shock and corral one into a small transitional area, separated from the others. Then Jack moved into the circular pen and let it out. He had to give it another little jolt to get it to move into the open space and drop the door. It ran around, somehow sensing Jack’s malicious intent.

It was funny at first to April to watch Jack chasing this small pig around the cage, cutting left and right faster than Jack could react, but then Jack suddenly changed tactics and moved ahead instead of chasing behind, cutting the ring and cutting the pig off till after a few more moves he caught him, slashing down hard on the pig’s lower spine, cutting it in half and paralyzing its lower legs. Its screams made April shiver. Human like and desperate, full of pain and blind fear at what it didn’t understand. It continued to struggle, though, pulling itself forward slowly, front legs digging but yielding little results.

Jack knelt on its lower body, pinning it in place.

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