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Butchering Line
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Butchering Line

When I got my cull notice, I promised myself I wouldn't cry or scream. The world was too crowded with over 20 billion people. People just couldn't be allowed to grow old anymore. I had a good life, and someone would take my place in the world.

The woman ahead of me in the chop line was a pleasantly plump blonde named Kate. She was on a diet when she got her notice. She quit that diet after that and went on a binge. She was the 2nd shift manager at a grocery store and would not stop talking about food.

She purposely followed the headsman to the guillotine, as if she was helping him find peanut butter in Aisle 6. He had her kneel and stick her head in the lunette. Her neck had trouble fitting.

?I'm sorry,? she apologized, as if it was her fault that the store was out of peanut butter. The headsman left the lunette open while Kate did her best to keep her neck in place. The headsman pressed the button and the blade came down. THUNK! Katie's body collapsed to the ground. Two assistants dragged the carcass away and a third hosed the blood off the rubber mat where she had knelt.

The headsman pats me on my butt. ?Step right up, cutie.? I smile and giggle at him. Flirting with him probably won't save me, but it was worth a shot. He leads me to the guillotine.

I kneel on the mat. He opens the lunette, and I stick my neck in like a good girl. As he locks me in place, I try to make eye contact. He focuses on his work, then steps away where I can't see him.

I look into the basket and see Kate's head. She sees me looking at her, then shuts her eyes. This is where I lose it. I scream as loud as I have ever screamed. I try to get away, but I'm locked into the lunette and the guillotine is bolted to the floor.

THUNK! There is a sharp pain, and my face hits Kate's. Something must have went wrong. I try to say something, but no words come out.

Out of the corner of my eye, I see the woman who was behind me. A goth chick with heavy mascara and a lip piercing smirks at me from the lunette. ?You were such a wuss,? she taunts, before the blade takes her head too....