A dairy cow chewing her cud and making sense of things--#Cinnamon revisited #amreading #govegan
- Janet Mason
- Jul 24
- 2 min read
This week, I thought I'd post a short excerpt from my novel CINNAMON, a dairy cow's (and her farmer's) path to freedom (published by Adelaide Books in Lisbon and New York). In this excerpt, Cinnamon is chewing her cud as she converses with her cow friend Spice and thinks things over. Suddenly, her predicament is beginning to make sense.
The short piece is recorded below on YouTube and below that is the text.
I shook my head in amazement. I saw an orange butterfly flit by
out of the corner of my eye. There must be some interesting flowers
around here.
Spice gave me a stern look that snapped me back to attention.
“This land isn’t free – even though it feels like the most natural thing
in the world to us. It sounded to me that if it wasn’t for Sunflower, this
land wouldn’t even be here. She has to pay money for lots of things. For
instance, she has to pay the farmhands,” she stated.
I knew half of that was a waste. But I just satisfied myself with a silent
eye roll that Spice ignored.
“Even our food and the grass seed have to be paid for with money,”
added Spice.
“You’re kidding me. That doesn’t seem right,” I replied. These things
are necessary to our survival – like air. I took a breath and swatted some
flies with my tail.
“Does she have to pay for the air, also?” I asked.
“Not that I know of,” replied Spice. “But even water requires
payment.”
I nodded as I chewed my cud. Things were starting to make sense.
CINNAMON, my most recent novel, is available on amazon.com: Cinnamon: A dairy cow’s (and her farmer’s) path to freedom: Mason, Janet: 9781958419786: Amazon.com: Books
CINNAMON is also available through your local bookstore and library
(just ask them to order it if they don’t have it).
My novel THEY, a biblical tale of secret genders (Adelaide Books; 2018) is available through bookstores and online where books are sold. It’s also available through your local library. If the library doesn’t already have it, just ask your librarian to order it.
For more information on THEY, click here.
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