Pig Farm

By Jamie J. Buchanan

Joe suspected his wife was having an affair. The consequences of his actions led to hungry pigs, an elaborate plan and surprising results.

This short story mixes elements of jealousy, horror and old-fashioned revenge to serve up a dish best served cold.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jamie J. Buchanan
• Release date: Jun 23, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301327591

Jamie J. Buchanan

Jamie J. Buchanan is based in Perth, Western Australia. He spent many years playing in rock bands, mostly loud, fast, punk rock and heavy metal bands - the sort your parents warned you about. He is currently playing guitar, singing and writing songs for melodic punk band "Incomplete" based in Perth, Australia. But he has always been writing stories - long and short. Jamie has had a short story "On My Goat" published by Cardigan Press in 2006 in the anthology "Allnighter" as well as having several short stories published on the Smashwords website for free download (www.smashwords.com). The short story "Sanguine Saviour" won second place in the monthly "Darker Times" competition (www.darkertimes.co.uk) and was included in the inaugural Darker Times anthology as well. The short story "The Woman on the Pavement" is published in an upcoming Editor's Choice anthology by Stringybark Press called "Hitler Did It". Jamie's short story "Battle of Wits" has won the Raspberry and Vine short story comp for 2012 - you can read it here: http://home.people.net.au/~raspberryandvine/ Jamie has had several stories short-listed as well including "Insights" in the 2013 Carmel Bird Short Story Award and "Imagine This" in the 2014 Bundaberg Writers' Writefest Award 2014. Jamie's short story "The End of Death" has won the "Spinetinglers" short story competition for Jan 2015. His short story "Mr Shmoopie" has also won 1st Prize in "Spinetinglers" short story competition for October 2015 and both stories were supposed to be featured in an upcoming anthology of award winning short fiction. (http://www.spinetinglers.co.uk). You can read them below (soon to be published late 2017) Jamie enjoys the films of Robert Rodriguez, The Coen Brothers and Guy Richie, music by Bad Religion, Muse, The Offspring, Clutch, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Metallica, and books by James Ellroy, Irvine Welsh, Chuck Palahniuk and Stephen King. His only hates are people who talk about themselves in the third person. And Brussel Sprouts. He hates Brussel Sprouts.

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Pig Farm

A Short Story by

Jamie Buchanan

Copyright 2013 Jamie Buchanan

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Pig Farm

I knew my wife was cheating on me. Don’t ask me how I knew, I just knew. You know how sometimes you just KNOW that someone is lying, or someone is keeping something from you? Well, I had had that feeling for a few months with Michelle.

I noticed things were wrong when she started to be more attentive towards me. She would tell me she loved me at least two or three times a day. We wouldn’t often have sex, but she was very affectionate…too affectionate, I now realize. It was out of character for her to be like that; she’d always been a bit standoffish when it came to intimacy between us. More often than not, I was the one who would initiate sex, hug her, or even give her a kiss in the morning. But then she started being overly loving and affectionate…and my cynical side came out.

Of course, as usual, I was far too chicken-shit to say anything. I was too scared of her, too scared of the reaction I’d get.

Mostly I was too scared she’d confirm my suspicions.

Is it better to live with suspicion and doubt than to know the truth? Especially when the truth would break your heart? I suppose there are arguments for both sides there,