CRACKED: An Anthology of Eggsellent Chicken Stories by J. Posthumus (read after txt) 📕

Rusha hadn’t been waiting long, but she had heard all the latest herd and flock gossip while she’d been waiting on Santi.

Rusha didn’t think Santi could communicate with the animals as well as she could, but he cared for them as much as she did. He didn’t know it yet, but he would be the perfect partner for her vision of opening an animal hospital.

Her feet ate away the distance between Santi’s hovel and the souk. The largest in the city, her father’s home overlooked the open-air market. He was the richest man with the biggest mansion. Both titles filled her father with the kind of twisted pride that consumed the poor and defenseless without regret. He never gave it any thought, but it troubled Rusha. Human or beast, she cared for the ones that lived at the bottom of society. Maybe that’s why her best friends were always the barely-alive creatures that she worked so hard to heal.

Rusha cut through the market, careful to browse through the wares long enough for her father’s bodyguard to wake up from his nap, look around, and then resume his observation of her. He’d been assigned to her that morning when the rest had taken to the streets to resume their hunt for Santi. It had been the perfect time to drop a powder packet into the guard’s drink and slip away.

Rusha purchased a length of thickly woven fabric from the rag seller. The swath would add to her future disguise and work well as a wrap for her hair. Then she pressed a large tip into the hand of the old woman that had warned Santi to run.

She had been watching Santi and Frango for a long time, and the young man and his chicken were integral to her plans. Only… Santi didn’t know it yet.

To Be Continued…

In another story…

Another time.

The End

About the Author

Bokerah Brumley lives on ten permaculture acres, complete with sheep, goats, peacocks, turkeys, geese, guineas, ducks, chickens, five home-educated children, and one husband. She serves as the president of the Cisco Writers Club and moonlights as an acquisitions editor for The Crossover Alliance.

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