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Hunter burst into tears He sobbed wildly, out of control It was like what he’d done to Harry Poor Harry And now this poor aniry herself

He didn’t want to eat the deer It was crazy She’d been alive,weeds just a minute earlier Alive Now dead And not just dead, but partly cooked

He told hi hiest knife in the kitchen

Orsay Pettijohn was no longer hungry for dreary for food

Since coh to stay alive The situation was desperate Kids were going into the surrounding woods looking forsquirrels and birds One boy had ed to catch a raccoon The raccoon had bitten the boy repeatedly before being beaten to death with a piece of rebar

A girl named Allison had collected a bowl full ofthem would make therant

Orsay had s and had been driven nearly crazy by the smell One of the boys had attacked Allison, beaten, her and stolen the mushrooms as Allison wept and cursed

Within a few , shouting at things that weren’t there He’d fallen silent after a while No one had entered his room since to see if he was dead or alive

Sorass and weeds and boiled theotten very sick, just a little But they hadn’t really gotten full, either

Kids were thin Their cheeks were hollow They didn’t look like starvation victier was only a few days old But soon, Orsay knew, bellies would bloat and hair would turn red and crisp, and deadly resigned lethargy would set in She had done a report once on fa she would experience

More and more kids made dark jokes about cannibalism

Orsay was less and less sure she wouldn’t go along

Unless, of course, she herself was the meal

She was lying in her bungalow, in the woods, out behind the school, watching an old download of a show that seemed to be from another planet The download came with a commercial for Doritos The characters ate food all the time It was impossible to believe that world had ever been real

Suddenly, Orsay are of another person in the room She didn’