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The Homesick Chicken

Edward D. Hoch

First published January 1977
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

The genetically engineered chicken had a beak like a wire-cutter so it could eat the hard-shelled nuts on the world it was bred for. That explains how it bit through the fence - but why did it cross the road?

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