Reading the Squeak Times

by Christopher Dabrowski

    Boar Albert ate and read The Squeak Times.

     -Loretta -he grunted animatedly. -Did you know that Earth's inhabitants eat pigs?

     -Oh -quipped his wife. -Barbarians!

    Albert adjusted the bathrobe belt and went back to reading. Yet he couldn't concentrate. Too much anxiety cost him what he read.

     -I will avenge them! I will eat a human! I'll buy one from the greyhounds -he decided.

     -They sell humans? -asked Loretta.

     -Yeah, they snatch them from Earth and trade on the black market.

     -Oh dear, I got goosebumps -she shuddered in shock.

     -Impossible, you're a pig -he laughed and burped after eating...