During Jer’s shift, we challenged the community to come up with narrations for The Duck Army in the style of Werner Herzog. Here’s the top submission, from Adam:

As the last screams echo into the clinically clean chambers, the geese exhale a sigh of relief, finally thinking that at last, the torture is finally over and they can have sweet blessed relief from the nightmare they have suffered.

And yet, deep down, they know. They can see the sick grin on his face as he looms over them, the hand slowly descending down; ready to squeeze the life from them again, to elicit the inhumane screams from the torture he seems to derive some sick pleasure from.

But this time, this time after the squeeze, they see a new expression: Remorse. They see him walk away from the cage after this time, leaving them to suffer the agony without the callous observations of a maniacal visage looming over them, revelling in the screams.

Peace. Clarity. Joy. Emotions all felt for the first time as they finally accept that the monster has left, never to return to darken their lives, scar their children and destroy their families with his cruel nature.

If only they realised from the start, that the cage never had a roof.