Short Story: Hawke’s Bay, 1993

We watched the cows get loaded up the ramp, where they walked to their death with a fear in their eyes. They put their heads down low as the bolt went through their ear. And then a big, dull sound as they hit the floor. A chain dragged them, one-by-one, by the ankle, lifting them up to hang in stench. And then a guy would walk forward and put a huge bla…