I didn't see the lobsters coming either - poor things, boiled alive!
I enjoyed your story @spalatino, there was a definite buildup of suspense and tension. A nice way of putting the human consciousness temporarily in that of an animal which is about to be killed and consumed! Perhaps you could've used the 'vegan' tag :P.
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Thanks for the advice aboit the vegan tag, it didn't occur to me at all. I am glad you enjoyed the story
TBH it was more said in jest than as advice. Guess it may depend on your position on animal violence. Certainly the reader is put in the consciousness of the animal, and sees its point of view as his/her own until realising that it is not the case - a measure of how well you hide the ending :D ...Does it end just there, with the shock/relief switch of realisation that you are not talking about humans after all? ....is there a further extension that can be made (now that the reader is here, in the consciousness of an animal about to be 'executed') which considers what other non-human sentient beings face daily - massively, globally and mercilessly? Thus making a connection between animal and (one's own) human suffering!?
After reading the story, it is the reader's own decision what to make of it. I believe fate of the animal is more easily explained through personification. That was the general idea. In the end I didn't put vegan tag, considering it would be hypocracy considering I am not a vegan and the point of this story is only to see things from a different perspective
Great, and it brings us back full circle - it was a comment made in jest by me, that's all :D