Through the Grass, Darkly...
By Silver Spun Sand
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Agreed, Tina. Barbaric.
Agreed, Tina. Barbaric. Numbering the badger has a powerful reverse psychology here. Second person shift is unusual and destabilising - it works really well to distance yourself from the emotion and place your reader central to it. Plus it has immediacy. The opening really warmed me to badger through that delicate snuffly imagery. A beautifully emotive piece but with adequate distance.
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Such emotions these lovely
Such emotions these lovely creatures arouse. I really liked your snuffly image of the badger foraging. Then realising it wasn't a road-death … Some of the farming community suffering TB great losses, are presumably desperate for some way out. I think there is work going on to test the feasability of badger vaccination http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/badgers and probably still work in progress over cattle vaccination.
An interesting take on the IP. On a lighter note, we used to call my husband 'badger' when for a while his very black beard had got streaked with grey! Rhiannon
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That pain is thought
That pain is thought acceptable is inhumane. Protest well made in a wonderfully visual piece, without becoming over emotional on the subject.
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