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Jack White- Harvest

The farm was a generally quiet place. Pretty good show. Cuts out the middle man and sells direct to the stores. Fruits, vegetables, meat. You name it. Meat. The farm had its own slaughterhouse. It used to be a family farm now only two of the family were left. Father and son, both had a sun glazed tan from working hard. Then there were the hired workers, who might as well been strangers. They ate there slept there and got paid. But the family didn’t talk to them much outside of work. Then on a cold autumn night. The workers betrayed the father and killed him in the slaughterhouse. They did this in front of his son. The workers drove off with all the money. The boy had known the ways of the slaughterhouse. But he did not know how horrible it could be. He stayed there for so long in the slaughterhouse. Killing. Only selling meat. But he only went out at night. He became very pale and he changed his name. Then he found the workers in a bar one night. He was the only one that night that didn’t leave in a body bag.

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