PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot
The key to successful livestock farming is to find the right bait. At the same time it is important not to spook the herd.
Field research indicates:
• food is their most compelling bait
• urban areas have stock density
• churches blend into any city
We compel them to complete the collection stations. Their food vendor mushrooms sprout nearby. The population multiplies with no interference.
Just before one Hungry Season, we return with spinner field generators. Wifi signals trigger the stations to reconfigure into wide-mouth jars. The generator then shakes the crops in. We cap them and head home.
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Rochelle Wisoff-Fields is the creative host of Friday Fictioneers.
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It seems as if..you leave a lot of detail out..they are aliens treating mankind as livestock
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That’s where imagination comes in. Maybe it just seems that way…
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They are pretty predictable, and perhaps quite a few can be harvested that way (Don’t mind me as I hang out deep, deep in the woods…)
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I hear you!
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That’s quite a departure for you. Who are you and what have you done with Jade?
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I’ve been waiting for awhile to find the prompt to go dark. This was my opportunity 🙂
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well, that’s a lot of crap… er, crops. 🙂
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🙂
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A spooky ending Li.
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It truly is. That is my greatest fear actually.
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I don’t see it happening any time soon.
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This wildly creative. Love the sci-fi spin. Thanks for sharing,
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Glad you liked it, thank you 🙂
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We’re all herd animals in the end. (K)
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Hard to argue with that.
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Surreal. Literally.
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I’m sure anyone caught up in what’s happening here would be feeling the same. Thank you, Sandra.
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My goodness, being on the bottom rung of the food chain is frightening, especially when we don’t realise. It Ssems we are the new farm animals. Wow, it makes you think.
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You’re right, it is food for thought. Thanks for reading and your comment, James.
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Someone will find this and present as a gennuine conspiracy theory on Twitter any day now! 🙂
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LMAO! As long as it links to my story, I’m cool with it 😉
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I think this is sci-fi? Quite a departure!
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Liz, it’s been awhile since going sci-fi. At least I hope it is! Thanks for reading.
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A delightfully different piece from you this week Lisa! Is this the new you?
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Thank you, Keith. I rented a Star Trek uniform this week 🙂
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Dear Lisa,
An interesting harvest indeed. I’m picturing livestock running the streets of NYC. 😉
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Rochelle, thanks much. LOL I kind of like the idea of humans in mason jars being transported across galaxies. I remember Gary Larson had a cartoon of humans in a jar but can’t remember what it was about beyond that.
Shalom,
Lisa
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You fixed the pic and wrote a gem. Nice going, Lisa.
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Thanks much, Bill. I wanted the top pic to be straight, the bottom pic when it turned into a container, but the tilted image would still be in everyone’s mind.
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I’m too OCD for the tilting.
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I hope they have a lot of Tums for us nasty beings!
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LMAO so funny, yes, they are going to need them.
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Well, one’s gotta have a system in place for any kind of large scale project. 😉
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haha! Indeed! 🙂
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😀 yum …
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This is so clever. I’m a sucker for a good sci-fi idea and this was definitely a good one. Well executed.
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Thank you, Margaret, happy you enjoyed the story.
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bit of alien stuff, no?
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Not the friendly kind of ET that’s for sure.
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Ha! Neatly written, Lisa. We’re just pigs at the abattoir, eh?
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Thank you, Penny. No, we’re just humans falling into the collecting jars 🙂
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That’s not looking good for us 😮
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This is a different kind of story. Good one jade
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Vartika, thank you.
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Ew alien takeaway huh? Sounds like they walked right into it. Clever idea for the prompt
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Laurie, thank you!
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That was awesome! They do look like livestock off to slaughter.
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Thanks, Nobbin.
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