Endtown by Aaron Neathery for January 27, 2017

Ah! She’s alive!!

what’s with the compulsive exercising?

She is trying to become LEAN meat.Jogging to avoid those constant telemarketing calls!Good idea!!

I knew that some people get hooked on a “runner’s high”, but this is ridiculous to suicidal.

I’m glad she’s alive, but she’s killing herself…

THERE. IS. NO. FREAKING. MUTAGENIC. VIRUS.

Once a pig, always a pig!

Do you get the feeling that only Walt is interested in visiting justice on those idiots?

You’ll never be able to run far enough away to get away from yourself.

Since the consensus is that she hates her body and is and probably bulimic, I doubt that is the real reason for her jogging. It’s too obvious and Aaron likes to throw curve balls. Alternatives? Possibly a trap for the kidnappers that Walt messed up? She’s hostage to the voice on the phone and has to run against her will?

It isn’t bulimia, it is that mutation and what it did to change her body.

A number of stories have dealt with self-acceptance. We saw it with Gustine, Wally and to lesser extents with Philomena, Linda, Jim and Sarah. This story may have to deal with others taking advantage of their lack of self-acceptance.

Convinced that the missing wound up on someone’s plate, she wants to make herself unappetizing by becoming thin. So she’s exercising and, my guess, not eating. That’s why she passed out.

The offer on the phone may have been for plastic or weight loss surgery. We can all guess what would happen to the excess “weight”.

Dear Lord…! She reminds me of … ME! Yes, I have always been pear-shaped. I’ll never forget being pressured by everyone (especially family members!) into losing weight so I could become thin and beautiful. Like that is supposed to make me feel good about myself! I’m in my late 40’s, and I’m still the same shape I have always been. But, guess what? I’m also a Brown Belt in Karate! And believe me when I say my teacher is NOT the kind that hands out belts for just showing up! NO WAY! I earned my belts, and I’ll earn the Black Belt, too… Wait and see…

Ok, going back to pigs being eaten then …

She’s a real trotter.

I have a suspicion that the phone call was someone trying to pressure her into accepting what she is and her place in the food chain.

If aliens are here I’ve heard they crave human flesh like steak, and baby meats veal.What if we are NOT the top of the food chain anymore.

Neathery is a very good story teller. I already feel an empathy with Portia. She’s braving danger for a compulsion, a principle or a cause.

It’s a fallacy that all pigs are fat. Unless overfed and under-exercised by close confinement, as domestic pigs are treated, they are very athletic. Try catching one by yourself in even a modest size pen and you’ll see. Wild swine can give even wolves and lions a good run for their money.

Well December 7, 2016 was the last we heard from Wally and Kirby and Chic. Hope it’s not their final story.