A very unusual tale about early life in the Alberta badlands. Do you know what happened?
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We had a bad spring, it got hot in the day and would not rain, but nights were cold and we got frost. Frost killed most of our plants even though mother and father would go out and cover and uncover them every night. A week went by, we were looking for dandelions to eat, as we had pretty much eaten everything else. Father could not even find any deer to hunt, but if he had I don’t know how he would have killed them. Our old neighbours took our gun and we never got it back, it was never found even after we found them. Zucchini usually make lots of food and make it fast, so we were hoping for that.
Then one morning after we had not seen frost for a week, it happened, we got frost again. Our crops were devastated. Mother was devastated. But mostly father was devastated. He knew what was next.
Three years ago, our neighbours were starving. They came one day for our gun so they could go hunting, we never saw them again. Do you know what they did? It looks like they were not very good hunters. We found them dead in their home. Mother, Father, and their two children. Starved to death.
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Mother and father had then decided if it ever got like that for them, that it would just be better to eat a family member and thus keep the rest of us alive. Father volunteered that if it should ever come to that, he would be it.
So the day came to kill father. It was rather difficult. He was naturally stronger than all of us, and even though he tried not to, he naturally fought back. We tried throwing rocks at him, but he kept running around. It was incredibly difficult to kill somebody who volunteered to be killed. Eventually, covered, with sweat, we agreed to give up. We were all weak from lack of food anyhow.
We would try again tomorrow. Tonight mother and father would talk about what to do, after all if we did not have something to eat, we would all die.
Do you know what we did?
Very compelling story. Sometimes things are so tough, you have to decide what to do if want to live. It reminds me of a movie I watched about a group crashed in snow, they actually did have to live on some who died, to keep alive. It may sound a bit sickening to some, but then think, if it was you there, what would you of done… Great story, keep up the good work 
thought it up this morning as I planted what was left of the plants we bought 2 weeks ago for the garden – it has been a crazy year for us, we still had frost and it got several of our plants. I was thinking how lucky we are to live in a time when we dont have to depend on our garden for survival
I did have a bunny die that way, Fly Strike is very real 
but we didnt eat her. (or the maggots)
* mind factory
Wow. That was disturbing. I think it’s kind of clear how the story ends though. Good job.
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