Wednesday, 21 January 2015

100 Words: A Childhood Memory

My first memory is of a group of cows feasting on one of their own, Dad laughing as they frenziedly ripped their own teeth out.

I have few other memories of animals.  Most the same as everyone else (pets going postal) because, before I left infant school, they’d all been lost to the plague they could only stop among humans. 

Those cows will forever be my abiding memory of creatures other than humans.  Although I know they weren’t like that before, cow prints still hold a certain power over me.  Because when they finished, they chased us.  And ate Dad.


Written for 100 Word Challenge #410 on Velvet Verbosity; the prompt was the word Feasting.


5 comments:

  1. I like it. Interesting twist on the global disease apocalypse. EAting Dad was the proverbial cherry on top of it all.

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  2. Cannibalistic cows? Killer cows? Why hasn't Hollywood picked this one up?

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  3. A whole new meaning to "mad cow." Enough to turn someone into a vegan.

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  4. interesting take on the challenge! :)

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