A Modern Day Animal Farm Tale

by Timothy House

Overview

Based on, and a tribute to, George Orwell's novella "Animal Farm." This short story is a modern day look at this legendary political thriller. It starts as the pigs have had now a two generation grip on Manor Farm and now have an aggressive and brutal police force of dogs. Napoleon III makes a deal with an oil company and in its incompetence the company spills oil and poisons one of the favorite drinking pond. Napoleon III is quick to blame it on a neighboring farm and sends his police force there and kills the owners along with some of his animals. Napoleon III claims they are giving the animals on that farm independence but in secret has no intention on doing so planning on taking over that farm too. The cats watch Napoleon's raid and vandalize a statue at Manor Farm. They put up a statue of Boxer the horse, a hero of the original Animal Farm who was murdered by Napoleon's grandfather. The cats form a rebel army along with the other animals at Baker's Farm which Napoleon III has taken over. They succeed in liberating the farm but fail at liberating Manor Farm and take on casualties. Soon a new power hungry animal comes to Manor Farm and takes over the police force before taking over the entire farm. The cats and other animals from Baker's Farm must fight the oppressive forces from retaking Baker's Farm while trying to liberate the animals of Manor Farm.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011300547
Publisher:	Timothy House
Publication date:	05/09/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	70 KB

About the Author

Ohio native Timothy House first began writing poetry as a teenager. As many poets, he began writing poetry to his girlfriend. He quickly found other topics to write about as well with a dream of someday writing a book. That dream became a reality in 2007 when he published Definitions. The book was his way of defining the world around him. The book contained poetry from nearly 20 years of writings. After the book was published Tim grew more comfortable with his writing and began to expand to writing fiction composing music and sound effects to his poetry. In collaboration with Wilderside Studio's in Nashville, TN, Tim released his first album of poetry with these effects and music. It became an instant hit. The Album was released in November of 2009 and at that time Tim was well on his way to completing his next book as he toured all over the United States performing his poetry in cities such as Chicago, Memphis, Nashville, New York City, Baltimore, Boston and many more. In 2010 Tim began writing his first novella Love Notes which was part of a larger project Apollo's Flame which featured poetry, short stories, and that novella. Tim performed one of his signature pieces In The City by The Mighty River while in Memphis. While there he wrote one of his most loved stories Old Man and the Moon. A story of an man who is dying and passes his great wisdom on to others. The story was published in August 2010 and was Tim's first fictional piece published. It was also part of Apollo's Flame which was published in November 2010. Love Notes was published first as just the novella in ebook form shortly afterward. Bookstores requested Tim publish a book with Love Notes and the short stories that were in Apollo's Flame on its own without the poetry so came the first edition of Love Notes.

As the new year of 2011 came so came a flurry of new stories. Tim began working a new short story for Poe Fest which was a celebration of Edgar Allan Poe's birthday. The story mirrored the writing of Poe with circumstances of his death wrapped up into a modern day eerie tale of aliens and dementia from being poisoned. Several other stories followed which would become part of the next version of Love Notes published in April of 2011. It had the same stories as the first version with several more stories. The 2nd version has several stories not available in Apollo's Flame. Shortly after the new Love Notes was released Tim completed his latest novella From My Hear to Your...