The Cannibals- Copyright- Robert Fullarton 2013

The Cannibals

Copyright Robert Fullarton 2013- Taken from Our Lives as Fiction

I saw a clan of cannibals sitting on the farthest reaches of a valley, they would not let any man from any other tribe, dividing clan or nation to pass trough unscathed or uneaten through the borders of the forest, near their own territories. Cannibals sought to segregate, because their terror worked in numbers, but when the huntsmen from the neighbouring castle came out to kill and slay their hated foe in submission, they could only successfully kill their enemies once they could part the great body of the herd away, so that each cannibal might be separated from one another and they did this through many a good mercenary, a good hired man, a good plausible diversionary tactic, they would separate and slay their enemies. But the rising law of the land was weak and foolish meddling men from the heart of the neighbouring townships brought the effective force of these huntsmen to an end. After a while with these social protectors disposed of, under the guiding folly of the law, the cannibals simply grew geometrically in number, they proliferated, they became more daring and more cunning than ever, more clustered and powerful in number. Their sheer numbers grew to be so taunting and daunting in size that the very public were afraid to step outside their own houses. The cannibals feasted off the bones of the old institutions, old authorities, powers, moral laws and judges, who were like lame, plum, blinkered turkeys that danced ever so stupidly beside the valley of the cannibals and that is why they were simply plucked up and devoured by the avaricious cannibals themselves.

After awhile the cannibals grew to be so powerful that they simply walked into the heart of the city, the townships and even the castle and they took control for themselves, all due to the follies, the appeasing stupidity and changes that were made by the stupid turkeys that were gobbled up by the cannibals. The cannibals have all the townspeople in fear, they frightened the people into believing in fables and lies for their own vainglorious exploits. These cannibals have convinced the children of the townspeople to become cannibals and they are all growing up to be and turning into cannibals, and this is why the growing rate of cannibalism is occurring in the town it is because a certain portion of the city’s populous is selected to be devoured for the greed of the cannibals. Where are the huntsmen of our long forgotten parental dreams? They are off in distant caves, hiding away like clandestine clams, as the over wrought nervous wreaks of society. The children are forming groups, they are becoming cannibals, they are starting to stare, and feed off anyone who even looks at them differently, what can we do?