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Modified Meats 2: The Airborn Division
We got turkeys on the wire Meg!
*This is a continuation of flash fiction sci fi humor piece that was published in Sci-Fi Shorts. It may well become a series. Having a lot of fun writing it.
https://medium.com/sci-fi-shorts/the-modified-meats-militia-905fc37874fb
Earl glassed the Modified Meats factory just up the road from his farm. It was early morning and only one solitary turkey sentry stood at the front gate with a short barrel shotgun leaning against its body.
Earl decided not to fire on it. “No point in riling them up this morning,” he thought. In the distance he heard the low whine of a crop duster cutting across the sky.
He turned his scope towards the noise and saw Jeb in the pilot’s seat just going into a barrel roll to the south. “Feller was always a show off,” Earl said.
He watched the small plane climb steeply to ten thousand feet. He could make out the Rebel Yell when he saw a tiny black object get flung out of the cockpit.
He tracked it with his scope watching feathers fly off its body as the turkey plummeted to the ground. From across the road Earl heard an alarmed gobble go up from the sentry before it raced back inside the factory.
