**This story contains graphic and explicit material it is not recommended for children. For mature audiences only** 18+
In this episode the hen interprets every death on her farm as evidence of God’s judgments on the undeserving, and takes skewed life lessons from the deaths.
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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris read by me Teacher Alyse
Illustrations by Ian Falconer
It was hot that afternoon, so after the chicken and her
sister had walked the yard a few times, they
wandered into the henhouse for a little shade. Had it
been crowded they probably wouldn’t have said
much, but there was no one around, and so the two
spoke intimately, the way they had when they were
young. “I don’t know if it’s normal or what,” the sister
said. “But sometimes… and this is just between the
two of us, okay?” The chicken nodded.
“Sometimes, when I’m with the rooster, I wonder
what it would be like if he, you know, wasn’t a
rooster.” “You mean, like, if he was a duck or a goose?”
The thought was ridiculous, and the chicken had to
bite the inside of her beak to keep a straight face.
“Or how about a turkey?” At this she lost her
composure and whooped until her eyes teared. “I’m
sorry,” she said. “I’m sorry. Go on.”
“Never mind,” her sister said. “It wasn’t important.”
“Oh, don’t be like that,” the chicken scolded.
“Come on, now. So if he’s not a rooster, what is he?”
The sister took a deep breath and let it out slowly.
“Well, like, maybe if he was, for instance, more like
me?” “Brown?” the chicken said, and in the silence that
followed she grasped what her sister had been
aiming at. “You don’t mean…” “It’s just a thought,” her sister said.
“Just a thought?” “Something that’s passed through my mind a
couple of times.” “A couple of times?” This was what the chicken
did when presented with shocking or unpleasant
news.
