Sample Chapter

God sends a recently deceased diplomat back to earth as a chicken to restore the proper relationship of man to domestic animals. Eight-year-old Jennifer Johnson finds the chick, names him "Superchicken," and is delighted to learn that he can talk. Her father runs a broiler farm and it isn't long before Superchicken discovers the fate of the overcrowded, industrial coop chickens. Suffering endless hardships, Superchicken leads a flock of chicken followers through the wilderness to the "Promised Land", a run down old-fashioned farm belonging to Hopi Trumbull. Superchicken organizes an army of fighting cocks, shuts down the chicken factory and holds a press conference. The publicity leads to a new and more harmonious relationship between Heaven and Earth and humans and animals. The Great Agreement is restored.

"When God expelled Adam and Eve from the Garden, Dog was heartbroken. She whimpered and yelped until God agreed that any creatures who wished to join the humans could do so. Adam and Eve promised to protect and love any animal joining them. In return the animals agreed that humans could eat a little meat as long as they did it with thanksgiving. Thus chickens and all other domestic animals joined humans in the Great Agreement." As the book opens, the Biblical Beast With The Head Of An Eagle, (known to chickens everywhere as the "Great Cluck"), sits before the throne of God complaining that Mankind has broken the Great Agreement with industrial agriculture, and is therefore destroying the Wheel of Life and Death that governs how all creatures are born on earth. "Cock-a-doodle-doooo.....Cock-a-doodle-doo" shrilled the Bird Headed Beast, "The Creation Department has turned into an assembly line, stamping out chickens that have no personality, no individuality, no life. When they return to me only eight weeks later, they all say 'Oh Great Cluck, we have led miserable lives. We have not known what it is to enjoy life and we're back here again.' " SUPERCHICKEN is a satirical, racy fantasy adventure, a compassionate commentary on human society, money, religion and love in the tradition of "Animal Farm"