In Defense Of The Harvest: After Dinner Conversation, #34

By Rebecca L Christophi

Synopsis - A little girl gets replacement eyes that were "harvested" from the criminal who cut hers out.

After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.

Podcast discussions of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Youtube.

• Language: English
• Publisher: After Dinner Conversation
• Release date: Mar 27, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393880691

Book preview

In Defense Of The Harvest

After Dinner Conversation Series

I KNOW WHAT YOU WILL all be thinking. It is true that I was asked to write this story by members of the current government. A government pertaining of a few politicians, lawmakers, and others who are currently subject to public scrutiny as possibly benefiting financially from The Harvest. The occurrences of the past few weeks have only heightened this concern. I find, however, that public scrutiny goes through phases, I have seen at least half a dozen of these in the past thirty-five years. Yet The Harvest remains.

I want you to know too that I was promised (and in-fact just finished reading through the contract before I began putting pen to paper, as the old saying goes) that not a word would be detracted from what I would write, whether it be in support or condemnation. As the first family to experience both tragedy and benefits from The Harvest, I am in a unique position to write on the topic. Indeed, I have spent most of my life since these events contemplating it and watching history unfold before my eyes, as we, as a country, changed the fabric of our society, and then of the world. I know I have been mostly silent on this topic but feel that now is the right time for me to speak out. I hope you will listen.

The idea for The Harvest