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As for this evening's episode: it opens on two
farmers, long time neighbours, ruminating on
their lot in life from the saddles of their
tractors.
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005 - The Neighbourly Farmers, Part 1 of 1
[ Music ] >> Welcome to FlashPalt, episode 5. Tonight's story, "The Neighborly Farmers." [ Music ] [ Music ] >> Tonight's episode is brought to you by codyskinner.com. Visit to see a guy's resume or watch the award-winning documentary, "A Day in the Life." Codyskinner.com. FlashPalt is an experiment in broadcasting fresh pulp stories in the modern age. 400 to 600 words brought to you Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Next week, we will be presenting our first multi-part serial, introducing a new character to the FlashPalt lineup, Thomas Blackhall. The stories of Blackhall, colored in shades of Robert E. Howard, and Sir H. Ryder Haggard will allow the show a more historical and somewhat mystical perspective. As for this evening's episode, it opens on two farmers, longtime neighbors, ruminating on their lot in life from the saddles of their tractors. [ Music ] The Neighborly Farmers, written by J.R.D. Skinner, art and narration by Opoponax, an audio produced by Jessica May. It was the second day of Alfred and Williams' 31st harvest as neighbors. Both hoped it would be their last, as they had for decades. Their time was evenly divided. Half was spent staring at the other, either in the eyes or in the back, droning along the rows of wheat. The other half was a blessed relief, as their tractors carried them away to the furthest ends of their fields. Unknown to either, they had each spent long hours prowling around the other's home, shotgun in hand. In the end, both men were too stubborn to surrender by being the one who pulled the final straw. Without warning, each man's engine stalled. At that same moment, in a small, off-off Broadway theater, the men's ex-wives were holding hands and watching a terrible play. Despite the poor acting and pretentious script, they were smiling. In the distance, dogs and cows began to howl. In Alfred's chicken coop, his two dozen hens dropped dead. Gouts of dirt began to erupt in each man's field. Hey-bales were tossed into the air and became grassy bombs as they shattered on the earth. A flood of mice streamed out of the fields, abandoning their burrows in futile exodus. This day, their last, both men, would know the horror of Karwick, the Spider-God. Flashpulp is presented by HTTP colon slash slash Skinner dot FM. The audio and text formats at Flashpulp are released under the Canadian Creative Commons attribution non-commercial 2.5 license. [Music] [BLANK_AUDIO]