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We hunt for fun. The flesh farms produce everything we need, and wild meat isn’t very tasty. It’s rare we bag one young and juicy enough to eat. But we’re predators: we enjoy the thrill of the kill.
We prefer to hunt at night, but our prey are diurnal so we head out before dusk, to catch them before they head back to their mountain lairs.
We find a pack of the two legged creatures on the prairie. They are armed with their fire sticks but the weapons are no match for our exoskeleta. We overwhelm and tear them apart.
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A 100 word story written by Bruce Arbuckle, inspired by the random word prompt “safari”
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