Thursday, May 29, 2008

What if...

What if you landed on a secret door and were catapulted into the air through a series of layers consisting of rotting fish, honey, and feathers. Well, for one you would appear as an incredibly over-sized chicken reeking of fish corpses, but you would also be standing in an alternate universe along with hundreds of other human shaped turkeys. Before you got a chance to adjust to your freaky new ambiance, you are rushed up an escalating ramp into a dim-lighted shack. You look rapidly around to find the source of this stampede. Low to the ground are two stumpy turkeys dressed in dusty overalls and red trucker hats. The strange thing about these feathery birds was not their attire. It was the 12 gage shot guns dangling around their shoulders. Do chickens have shoulders? You are starting to freak out, meanwhile you are relocated by the other addlepated wanderers into a towering iron cage. But then, as if nothing could be more bizarre, an aroma floats it's way through your nasal passage. Sweet smells of mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberries, and stuffing are circling your head while you lick your lips. The scent takes you back to a jubilant time, Thanks Giving. Then it hits you, you hear the cock of the shot gun. All around you people who are becoming aware of the events about to occur are scratching at the ground and yelling to their full capacity. What if the world of giving thanks were to be turned around on us? What if the turkeys finally got their revenge?

P.S. The rotting fish was just for effect. It doesn't have anything to do with this story.