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    The Farm
    The Farm
    The Farm
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    The Farm

    By JT Pearson

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    After a war that nearly wipes everyone out, famine becomes the biggest problem as the toxic aftermath won't allow any growth. All of the plants and animals are nearly gone and people are dwindling. Then scientist come through by setting up farms in the vacant skyscrapers, using artificial sunlight and a sophisticated watering system. This story focuses on the regular schlubs that guard the farm. The only reason that the people that remained survived the famine was because they had slow metabolisms. The remaining society consists of former fatties. Not survival of the fittest, the narrator points out, but survival of the fattest. The two friends get themselves into a bind when one of them is challenged to an honor duel by a mutant.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJT Pearson
    Release dateMar 13, 2013
    ISBN9781301798759
    The Farm
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    JT Pearson

    JT Pearson is possibly more myth than reality. It is widely believed that he has been around for thousands of years. Archeological digs have uncovered Grecian artwork that suggests that they prayed to him to cure ailments of the feet. Irish legend insists that JT Pearson is that movement in shadow that you’re not certain that you actually saw, or that image at the edge of your peripheral vision that vanishes when you turn toward it. In the upper Midwest of the United States people had claimed that they had several images of JT Pearson captured on film but they were all poor quality and eventually proven to be hoaxes. It is only recently that an artist rendering was discovered in the attic of an old convent that is believed to be authentic. President Richard Nixon had claimed before his death that JT Pearson was the specter that haunted his boyhood home, and quite possibly the reason that his mother left his father for a short time. Nestled among all of these legends and hearsay is the accusation that he is the author of this sight and responsible for the drivel that has been filling your head. Lawyers for JT Pearson advise that if you read his work you do so at your own peril and no form of compensation either monetary or otherwise will be offered for any injuries permanent or short term which are incurred within the pages of his stories. If you’d like to communicate with JT Pearson either burn a photograph of yourself and sprinkle the ashes into the wind at dusk or you may take the more conventional route at thehungryrobot2005@gmail.com P.S. look for novels coming in the near future. For now, please enjoy the many short stories that he has provided for you to read for free. Feedback is much appreciated.

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      The Farm - JT Pearson

      The Last Dog

      By JT Pearson

      Copyright 2013 Joseph Pearson

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      Enormous breasts, so big that you could barely hold them, and brains so tiny that you barely had to worry about them going anywhere. It took us generations to modify them that way. Chickens. They’re long gone now. I’d say they might well be the strangest looking animal that I can remember. I got a chance to spend a day on my Uncle Martin’s hobby farm when I was seven. After that I always wanted to be a farmer.

      That was a long time ago. Now I work on a farm. It has fifty seven floors, growing everything from asparagus to lentils, with each floor bedded with high grade topsoil, the crops fed with artificial sunlight and an efficient hydro release system. I’m one of the men that guard the farm from bands of marauders that don’t care to do all of the work that it takes to grow food in the toxic conditions that still remain from the war. The marauders just show up and try to breach our perimeter, get into the building, and take everything we’ve grown. I work the night shift. Night Guard Jonny Ryder. I’m one of the roughly twenty thousand people in North America

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