Cramped Creatures

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It was the same dark day as every day in our lives, we a 100's of us were sitting in the places we were assisted.  It was so cramped like we used to sit very close, sometimes smelling our own shit, and sometimes, seeing it beside our food makes it worse. We Used to stay here from our childhood, it's like our house, I don't even know where are my parents nor my home is. This Big Place is the only place I know in the whole world. My legs, my body used to become worse when I grew up, No walking, No physical work or anything, everything was supplied to our mouth, and that tasted like shit. 

As I grow up I was already used to the food, Sometimes when we feel sick No one would come to us, No one will ever care even, It's like a living hell for us. There is not even a single old one who can help us understand where we are or where we end up. It's all been buried in me for ages. The only interaction we get to the outside world or people is when 4 People enter our shed opening us to sunlight for 10 minutes. Sometimes they would come to us and Inject some medicine into us, The pain by the Injection lasts in us for days, we couldn't even oppose them. Anyone was taken away from us and that would be the last time we could see him. In childhood, I used to listen to ghost stories telling us that they would just kill us when we grow up and many were thrown away because they would become old, where we weren't be used further

One day, I don't know why but I became to swell up, and I could see my friends also started to swell up, It's not a single day change, I could see myself becoming more lazy day by day, swelling like a balloon day by day. I don't know what is happening to me and my friends, I was damn scared about myself. 

One night, all my friends and everyone in the shed were asleep, but I couldn't sleep, thinking of myself, there came again the 4 people with 2 other people into the shed, I suddenly closed my eyes pretending to sleep in front of them. I was again damn scared. I heard them speak something, I opened my single eye and they were right in front of me. 

"Yeah, so what do we now?"

"I think it's time, better shift them and make some bucks"

"Perfect, Now just point out how many swelled ones are there here, they can do the heavy work and tomorrow let's just throw them out and sell"

"Done" 

I heard all the things and could recall all the things my oldies said to us. I was scared like hell for the first time in my life, They will sell us and they will kill us after. My legs started shaking, my heart started to trumble, that's it my life came to an end. All these years spent in this cramped shed, and then get killed. Our Lives, in a nutshell, I thought. I wanted to share this with someone, but no I couldn't find anyone. 

Couldn't sleep all night, I was just looking at Zero, thinking why my life was like this, why can't we live like the other people or beings out there in the world. Thinking all these, it was the next day, they dragged me and some of my friends with chains and they threw us away into a more cramped-less space shed kinda thing, I could see some of my other friends in it, we were put in a single cell for everyone, it's like a jail, and I was not even unable to stand in it, Cried like hell, Sued the people who created me, I don't even know who, cried, cried, cried for the whole day, and with all the cry, my mouth searched for water but couldn't even find anything to drink or eat, with all the tiredness that occurred because of the cry, I slept for the rest, in the cell where I couldn't even stretch my legs. 

Maybe a few days, later, the shed door had opened and for the first time in my life I saw the world, the people, cars, bikes, children playing, buildings and a fresh dose of sunlight, I don't even know where I came but with all the first impression I saw here was a sudden rise fo self hope for me. But, few seconds into the sudden hope, I have been again dragged, and now, within seconds I was in a more cramped small shed.

Now, the same, again I could smell the same smell of shit I smelled at the big shed. I was thrown into this small place and into the shed. This is more worse than in the big shed, I was sitting on my knees, like the other fellows who are new to me. Suddenly the poop of another one dropped exactly on my head, from the top, and I stepped on some other shit which was under my leg. I felt awful, worse, not even in my worst dream I thought of this. 

Suddenly, the gate was opened and a big monster kinda thing caught me by my legs and tried dragging me, in my life for the first time I resisted, and the catch was shifted to another one who is standing in front of me. The creature dragged him and took him out. And in front of all of us looking at him, he just took a sharp object and cut the neck of my friend and threw him into a big machine, where he was cut into pieces. The wild screams he did, resounded in my head for at least 5 minutes. I was frizzed for at least 10 minutes where I am unable to digest the thing I saw and heard just now. The Sudden rise of hope which came when I was introduced here vanished very long by seeing all these. I felt awful, was pleading with the one who created me to kill me instead of seeing this worse part, or to rescue me from this wild way of death.

"New to here, eh?" asked a fellow who is beside me seeing me being frozen.

"Uh-Yes," I said in a painful and about cry Voice. 

"I could see it," He said with a smirk. He wasn't even scared or I couldn't see him shivering to see all these. 

Out of all the curiosity, I asked him,

"You ain't looking Scared, aren't you feared of death and mainly that kind of death."

"Huh, No, after all, who we are, We are Chickens, our life span is just 6 years. We were born to be killed and be a portion of food for these people. So why cry, when you're body is just for them. Live this life as long as you are lived, and get killed, and that's it. It's the Life Goal for us. So a Big No." He said.



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