This isn't my strongest piece and con­sid­er­ing that I've been bad sick all week I prob­a­bly should have stayed in bed and left well enough alone.

Yea, right.

This is also an exper­i­ment. ¬†I'm decent at descrip­tion but wanted to try doing some­thing in pure dia­log to see if I could carry a story that way.

Any­way here is my Sep­tem­ber 18th #fri­dayflash. Please com­ment below!

"If you'll step this way please I'd like to show you our lat­est prod­uct innovations.

This is the lat­est in the Gilboa line of hous­ing units. ¬†It fea­tures a sep­a­rate sleep­ing hut and des­ig­nated toi­let areas. ¬†It also has an insert for when you have to add or remove items from the unit.¬† You can iso­late even the most aggres­sive pet with­out harm­ing them. It's made of 20 gauge Ste­la­nium and comes in a vari­ety of sizes, rang­ing from the stan­dard 2 metes tall by 3 metes wide ¬†and 2 metes¬†deep to the lux­ury size of 2 by 6 by 4 and the brand new fam­ily size of 2 by 10 by 10. ¬†And best of all it has a new exter­nal access feed­ing facil­ity so that you never have to open the cage!

Over here we have the newest Gath unit that comes com­pletely cov­ered in a TransparaSte­la­nium dome. ¬†It also comes in the Stan­dard, Lux­ury and Fam­ily sizes with diam­e­ters of ¬†3, 8 and 12 metes respec­tively. ¬†The Lux­ury and Fam­ily sizes also come with a sec­ond access port that can be con­nected, via tub­ing, to addi­tional units pro­vid­ing unlim­ited mix and match possibilities!

On those occa­sions when you have to dis­pose of a body because it has died or you acci­den­tally allowed them to breed and now have too many, we now carry an exten­sive line of trap and removal devices designed specif­i­cally for that purpose."

"What about instead of treat­ing them like ani­mals we treat them like liv­ing beings and let them alone? ¬†Let them live in the wild rather than cap­ture and cage the for our amusement?"

"Is that you Eliana? ¬†Must you bring this up yet again? ¬†We've gone over this a hun­dred times, they aren't like us, they ARE ani­mals. ¬†Keep­ing them like this is prob­a­bly bet­ter for them than if they were in the wild."

"They are liv­ing crea­tures capa­ble of intel­li­gence and love and com­pas­sion. ¬†They have a soul and we have no right to treat them like this!"

"Come now Eliana. There is no evi­dence of that. ¬†There is no proof what-​​so-​​ever that they have a soul of any kind. ¬†They don't even feel pain!

After all, they are only Human."

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