Sunday, March 18, 2012

ROOSTER RAGE - Opening segment (Scroll down for previous chapter)
  


     Bentley lived on a sprawling five acre farm, where he and his wife, Emma Lou, raised two children and a large herd of sheep.  Bentley said it was much easier raising the sheep.  They were easier for their dog to herd and they cost less to feed.

     He was always bragging about the blue ribbons his kids won every year at the county fair.  “Next year we’re going to enter a couple of sheep,” he boasted.  “Hopefully they’ll show as well as the kids.”

     My wife and I, and our two children, also lived on a five acre farm, although it wasn’t sprawling like Bentley’s farm.

     The fact that we were just raising our children on the farm bothered Bentley; not that they weren’t blue ribbon quality, but that we were wasting good space not raising something else. 

     “You need to get yourself some chickens,” Bentley said one day.    

     “Do they come with a rooster?” I asked.

     “You gotta have a rooster with chickens,” he went on.

     “No thanks,” I answered. “Five acres isn’t enough room for a rooster.”

     Bentley was unaware of my tormented past…with Rudy, Gramps’ demon-possessed rooster. 





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