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Something is up with these chickens. And for now, half the village is too terrified to find out what. The other half is filming it for YouTube. Nympho Village -Something-s Up With These Chick...

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Outside, a single egg rolls silently down the main street. Written on it, in what looks disturbingly like eyeliner: “Check your carbon monoxide detector.”

“Not just looking,” Mrs. Crumble told me over weak tea and stronger accusations. “ Watching . Calculating. She’d tilt her head like she was appraising my life choices. And then—and this is the part nobody believes—she nodded . A chicken nodded at me, Mr. Harrow. Like she approved of my mortgage refinancing.”

Local entertainments have also shifted. The annual Village Fete traditionally featured a “Guess the Weight of the Chicken” competition. This year, it was replaced by “Guess What the Chicken Is Plotting.” (Answer: Nobody knows, but the winning entry was “World domination via feather-based psychological warfare.”)