Snippet #1057541

(I named the chicken after my friend who keeps them as pets, lol)

Josh kicked the door open and yelled in a bewildered tone, "BRIAN? BRIAN! WHAT HAPPENED TO JESSIE? WHY WAS SHE ON FIRE?" he set Jessie's crispy corpse on the counter as his sister ran in. "Brian's with a scary man", she said, "I'm scared of him, I don't know what happened to Jessie. I'm hungry and Brian's ignoring me though, he didn't make any breakfast, can you please make me lunch?"
"Is it lunch time already?" he wondered out loud. With a sad expression, he started to pluck the feathers off the half of his ex-pet chicken that hadn't been burnt.
Sarah pleaded, "Stop that, I don't want to eat Jessie, I want to bury her! She was a good Chicken! She was never mean like the other chickens, she didn't peck me and didn't even chase me once!"
"Sarah, this is what happens to chickens when they stop laying eggs. Jessie was a nice chicken, yes, but she's also food. If we buried her, we'd be wasting food."
"But Jessie was a good chicken! Please kill some other chicken to eat and bury Jessie!"

Josh sighed and stopped pulling feathers. He didn't really want to eat her, either, so he took Sarah and went to the shed for a shovel. After sending Sarah off to look for a rock she could use as a headstone, he dug a shallow hole and got the chicken. Sarah came back with a long, flat rock, and she put it upright in the dirt. Josh handed her the chicken and she laid her in the hole, then threw a handful of dirt over her. Josh shoveled the loose soil back over her, then took his shovel back to the shed, and remembered he'd never collected the eggs. He picked up his basket, which had survived the attack of the hammer ninja, and head into the shed. The rooster cocked his head at him as he moved the egg Jessie had laid that morning into the nest of another chicken from whom he'd just taken an egg. The rest, he took into the kitchen.