
Cock-a-Doodle-Doom
56.41k words in 41 chapters, updated on Oct 18, 2016.
completed novel
- #1: Chicken and Egg Situation
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#2: Empty Nest Syndrome
I’m with my friend Tegan or ‘Tig’. When I talk about her boyfriend, she seems to break down (and also the teapot she was holding).
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#3: Over Easy
After tending to a fragile friend, I go to the bar to spend the money I got from her (thanks Tig!). That’s where I meet a really gorgeous girl.
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#4: Like a Banty on a June Bug
I’m trying to pick someone up (her name is Domenica) when drunk guys start pounding on the door screaming weird stuff. Really?
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#5: You're Chicken!
I’m so shy I usually skip past the good times, but Domenica brought me back home and she’s making a move!
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#6: Egg on Your Face
Sleeping in the arms of a girl I like is amazing. Except when something is breathing right next to the bedside table in the middle of the night.
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#7: Walking on Eggshells
I’ve overslept at Domenica’s place. Now I’m late to my new job at the chicken factory!
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#8: Cackling
It’s my first day at the factory and some people seem to be a bit out of it. My new coworker Dave hits me up with some stuff straight out of a conspiracy theory.
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#9: Shake a Tail Feather
Dave is not such a bad guy, he simply believes in… different stuff? He thinks we’re special people. To make up, we go eat lunch together.
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#10: Come Home to Roost
Workers all seem moody and unresponsive at the factory. Not a place where I’m likely to make friends. Even Tig’s boyfriend pretended he hadn’t seen me.
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#11: Something to Crow About
After a harsh first day a work, I swing by Domenica’s place. Suddenly she decides to take our conversation to an… unexpected place, for a science person?
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#12: Strutting Your Stuff
Domenica tells me how she studies supernatural phenomenons. I’m gonna have to work through my skepticism to give us a chance.
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#13: Brooding over It
I left my new lover awfully busy. I guess I’m keeping her on her toes. Anyway, I’m gonna need time to process what she shared with me. El Pollo, a magical mountain? Really?
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#14: Stick Your Neck Out
Tig seems to feel a little better, but last night I had an uncomfortable conversation with my mom. Yeah, I sleep at my parents’ place at the moment. I’m eagerly waiting for my first paycheck so that I can get my own place.
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#15: In a Stew
It’s lunch time at HappyBroilers: with some luck, I can find the Rodrigo or Leon. I just hope the food is better than what Dave promised me before leaving.
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#16: Bad Eggs
Domenica’s house was just… raided by some guys I didn’t know. Workers from my factory next to the mountain. I played bait and lost them in the old town. If they’re after Domenica, does that mean she’s right about her supernatural stuff?
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#17: Birds of a Feather
I want cuddle time with the girl I just kissed a few days earlier, but instead we’re sitting down discussing pagan god worshipers. What’s wrong with the world today?
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#18: Flew the Coop
I agreed to going undercover at the factory. I mean, those guys seemed like a hazard and the cops don’t seem to be doing much about it. Someone has to do something, I guess.
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#19: Stuck in Your Craw
No help from the cops last night when Domenica’s house was attacked and the police station doesn’t even have anyone working in it. I’m on my own if I want to figure out what some of the factory workers are up to… including Dave.
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#20: Chasing the Chicken
Dave is not one of them, but he suggested that we’ve been wrong all along. It wouldn’t be a them but an it? Are the factory workers the puppets of something with a greater power?
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#21: Hatching an Idea
Following Dave’s advice, we fled the factory before things could go south. The workers are definitely controlled by something. Maybe it’s time to skip town, but that might be a hard thing to pitch to Domenica, who’s got her whole life here.
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#22: Made from Scratch
Little Nathan seems to know more about this situation than he lets on, but at least he has convinced Domenica that we should get away before it’s too late.
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#23: Pecking Order
Given the circumstances, I pushed back the love talk for as long as I could, but I need answers if I’m ever to skip town in the arms of a stranger. What do you want from me, Domenica?
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#24: Rooster Eggs
Domenica is not the only one I should talk to. My parents or Tig shouldn’t stay in town when some sort of evil god is being resurrected. The only problem is that I’m the one who has to speak to them about it.
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#25: Everything but the Crow
Everyone seems to be down at the Yolkside Lunch, a summer event with a collective picnic as the main attraction. Finding my parents and Tig in the crowd is probably not gonna be a walk in the park.
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#26: The Bird Has Flown
It was all a trap. They have my parents, they probably have Tig and we barely escaped the park. What now?
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#27: Bird's Eye View
I was a little spooked but I’m back in action. We’re at the factory entrance with Dave, Domenica and Nathan. Now the question is, how do we stop whatever is happening from happening? How do I get my parents back?
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#28: Hard-Boiled
Infiltrating the factory with Dave seemed like a great plan, but what in the world is Tig doing here, dancing on the roof among the puppet workers?
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#29: Nesting Behavior
I’m trying to stop Tig, but suddenly I’m among her memories. What the fuck?
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#30: With Its Head Cut Off
A glimpse of Tig’s story tells me a stone egg is the source of all this mess. She was being controlled from the beginning. Oh, Tig.
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#31: Gone Goose
We’re doomed. Ñox Cayù, evil god, has risen from the remains of the horrifying ritual. I just got Tig and my parents back!
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#32: Birds and Bees
Fleeing from the factory in Dave’s pick-up, we learn that Nathan is pretty special too. What’s his deal?
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#33: A Bird in the Hand
A few years ago. Still in high school, Domenica gets pregnant from casual sex with a strange friend of hers. Somehow, before she even makes any tests, she knows.
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#34: Baby Chick
Still in high school, Domenica has a hard time deciding whether she should abort or not. Maybe the fact that the little life she’s carrying is sending her dreams has something to do with it.
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#35: Making Chicken Salad…
Back to the pick-up, the less human version of Nathan wants me to ask him questions. Is this really a good time to play a guessing game? Meanwhile, Dave is driving us all towards the mountain. Towards the mad god’s home ground.
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#36: All Eggs in One Basket
My mission is to take out that giant chicken god, and apparently no one else can do it since Dave decided to bail. We’re down to three people, counting a child and his worried mom. What could go wrong?
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#37: Count Your Chickens
The mad god seems to be onto us and closes in while we approach the temple at the peak of El Pollo.
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#38: Head-On
Ñox Cayù is near! Holed up in the temple, Domenica, Nathan and me are supposed to take him down. Good thing we don’t have time to think about the odds.
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#39: With Its Chicken Cut Off
I was supposed to stand my ground and trap Ñox Cayù, but usually, when a giant chicken corpse missing its head comes after me, I run.
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#40: Sunny Side Up
Supposedly sealed within a statue head, Ñox Cayù wakes up and latches on my arm. I guess I should scream and run now.
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#41: Aftertaste
The vicious chicken god has been neutralized, at least for now. I choose to be lazy and content while the town rebuilds itself. Yay us!
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