I knew very thoroughly that I was supposed to wake up as a human with my human face, human hands, human legs etc; beside my human wife on a Wednesday morning, 6 am, for my routine jog.
But that didn’t happen.
Instead I am here in my new life as a chicken with my chicken face, chicken Breast, chicken thighs and chicken legs.
Everything felt normal although it was unusual. Like I said earlier, its an unusual day.
Anything can happen on an unusual day.
I knew exactly, what to do as a chicken in my chicken life. There was no space for confusion.
So my past human life now, seemed to be a limbo, in which, I was stuck in for a considerable amount of time, that is my human age.
I got over my human life and moved on with my chicken life. My legs felt comfortable with it's long fingers and nails. I felt like a dinosaur. I could smile with my beak on. My hands were my large wings, but I could grab things with ease.
Evolution. I thought.
Down the stairs my parents greeted me, not to mention, they were also chickens.
Mom chicken was preparing cereal and milk for breakfast.
I did wonder where the milk came from!? Dad was reading newspaper. He was busy doing his stuff.
I did not bother about the details of the news he read.
"Come have your breakfast, Egg?" Mom chicken said.
I had mixed thoughts and gave a confused gaze to which Dad chicken smiled.
She called me Egg which implied I am either the youngest or a single son..Egg.. Whatever!
I started to question my gender. I could not tell, to be honest.
This, what I am experiencing is a reality jump. I could be a Hen or a Rooster here..! I did not know for sure and I did not care as well.
I took whatever the Universe had in store for me with zero complaints.
I had my filling breakfast. Eating with the beak was quite an experience.
I went out with my chicken Dad afterwards. He gave me some money and asked to go buy some meat.
This was disturbing but I walked to the butcher shop to be shocked to know, what we had for meat.
The butcher was a Buffalo. He was Big.. real Big... and strong.
His apron had bloodstains. I looked behind him to see humans in cages. All of them naked. The humans were small as the size of chickens from my past life. They were just making noices and running around.
"How much?" the Buffalo asked.
I did not know what to tell him which is when I saw a familiar face among the naked humans.
"My Boss" - I said in my mind. This is the man who made my life so difficult as a human in my past life. For all the good effort contributed there was neither a single word of appreciation nor kind gesture ever from this man. He was to me pure evil.
"I will have him." - Without any doubt, I pointed at my Boss from the past life.
The Buffalo grabbed him with both hands and went inside. The sounds of knife could be heard from inside.
A chill ran down my spine to my stomach. In two minutes, the Buffallo had my Boss chopped into pieces and then to a plastic bag. I took him home to my Mom with much satisfaction. I have not felt happier.
For lunch, while we sat , Mom chicken brought a plate full of fried popcorn sized human meat for us to devour. I grabbed one piece. Perplexed I sat there not knowing what to do next. Now that I had my sweet revenge, I will have to eat him next.. But will I? The Universe is testing me.. I was sure.
The next moment, I woke up back to my human life.
I was having a nap at my office during lunch-break. Or was I rejected by the Universe as I failed the test.
What I experienced, I could not contemplate whether it was a dream or a parallel reality.
It took me almost a minute and a half for my human brain to settle down to realize and place myself back to my human self. I could still feel those large wings and long chicken foot.
The Universe has placed me back to my crazy , pathetic human life because I hesitated to eat my popcorn Boss.
On the desk was a small box of popcorn chicken. I took one small piece.
And wondered, If I will ever eat chicken again after having lived a brief period as one.
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