His black feathers shined like the bright stars of the night. Many of them flew through the air and drifted slowly to the ground as he flapped his wings rapidly.
He was doing the dance forbidden by all chickens, and once he began there was no turning back. On one of his chicken he hopped backwards and started flying in a figure 8.
Before he knew it, the moonlight flashed and the stars seemed to scatter in every direction. The night was dark and he fell to the ground.
It felt like and eternity since he did the forbidden dance, in reality though it wasn’t. He got up, spread his big black wings and with relief that he had survived he said….
BUKAW!
(he could now live forever)
Brian Hughes
DGAF 
i enjoy simple stories. thank you.
ah no problem dude, I enjoy writing simple things like that so i’m glad you liked it.
I love this piece! is this your art? 🙂
I think my mother would love the art she has real live pooping chickens in her yard. 🙂
Thank you 😀
and yes it is my artwork, a good friend of mine actually has a bunch of chickens and other farm animals in her backyard as well haha
I enjoy hopefully making peoples day with the writings and artwork that I post on here.
aww, thanks. Do you draw turtles by chance….those are my favorites. i should get me a pet turtle…
my mom’s two hens laid 15 pollitos (baby chicks) and I gotta go bk and take pics. the mommys wouldnt let me pull them from the coop to take fotos.
thank u for following. I look forward to sharing with you
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got a nice blog here man, cool to read stuff like this 🙂
Thanks man! i’m glad people are liking the stuff we post on here. Dont forget to stop by our music page as well we’ve got some cool stuff on there too. http://rnwdgaf.bandcamp.com/
This was a fun read, love it. Keep up the great work!
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i’m liking the majestic rooster!
beautiful!
This is really wonderful. Love the tone!
Thanks 🙂 I really feel the tone was set in this by the dark night that I mentioned in it. It kinda made you feel like you were viewing the chicken do the dance from far away.
Your artwork is nice. Thanks for giving the like of my post “And Lift Off” and deciding to follow me.
Thanks for following New in Every Way. This is an interesting post. I like the sketch and I’m curious about the concept of the chicken living forever . . . because of a forbidden dance. Care to unpack that?
I’m glad to hear you enjoy the post (: and of course, I wanted to base the whole story of the chicken off of an idea i had “what if someone could live forever and how would they do it”. The fact that it was a dance being done reminded me of a morning routine because the “black chicken” was in the night. So as humans how we get up in the morning, take a shower, get dressed, brush our teeth or however you may start you day I wanted the dance to represent how a chicken would get ready to start the day and live forever. I hope that makes sense haha.
Huh! Yes, it makes sense. My dad passed two years ago. I wonder how he started his new day of living forever in that glorious place–in the company of God himself and a lot of awesome people. . . . There’s a song about that: “I Can Only Imagine.” (The one by Mercy Me or Wynonna Judd)
Aww that was nice. Short and sweet.
You had me at BUKAW! This was likely the most awesome thing I have read today. Chickens, for some reason, crack me up.
The forbidden chicken dance … now that is something I have got to see!
haha the BUKAW gets me everytime as well. And chickens in general are just odd animals to think about in general. I’m glad you liked it though.
Love the black chicken and his crazy dance, you painted the scene brilliantly and without too many words…being too wordy is defiantly a failing of mine 🙂
Thank you 😀 i’m glad you love the chicken and his dance haha being descriptive with words like that is one of my favorite things to do because i can “paint a picture” with the words in story.
This is great 🙂
I relish, lead to I discovered exactly what I was looking for. You have ended my 4 day lengthy hunt! God Bless you man. Have a nice day. Bye
Nice read. Thanks for the likes and the follows.
Do you do your own artwork?
Yes, I do my own artwork :). All the artwork you see on this blog was done by me (Brian Hughes). if you wanna check out some more of my stuff I have a facebook page. Facebook.com/BrianHughesart
Thank you. I will visit.
Word? The story had me rollin’. And well drawn picture dude. I enjoyed this a lot.
haha thanks dude i’m glad you were liking it because I laugh to myself everytime I read it too.
Your story is full of the feeling of Universal principles of what life and living well is about! The Black Chicken is a barnyard hero. Thanks for following my fun, too.
The black chicken is my hero! it’s cool to see that people are really seeing the deeper meaning behind the black chicken with principles of life though. Sometimes you just have to personify barnyard animals as totally awesome dancers haha.
Oh, yeah, such a happy dance!
The chicken was doing a mixture between thiller and the harlem shake. It was a happy dance indeed.
This was strangely intense and yet so simple at the same time. Love it!
you know, It’s crazy to me how the story ended up being so appealing to people but i’m vey glad you love it (: I try and send people on a adventure through the writing or artwork I do.
Great! Thanks for the follow, too.
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The title just sucked me right in, and the phrase “the dance forbidden by all chickens” is just delectably daffy. Love it.
the enticing dance of the black chicken is forbiddenn by all the chickens haha glad you like the post (:
Intriguing post – Thanks, too, for visiting/following my blog. All the best for yours!
ah no problem and thanks for liking the post 😀 glad to keep you intrigued.
Hey, thanks for your appreciation on my drawing!
Thanks for checking out my Brynmore blog. I checked out your facebook page and really dig your art, particularly the darker stuff. I’ve some pieces up on deviantart, just search Brynmore13.
Oh yes! i love making artwork that has a darker feel to it. If ive creeped you out with anything ive made then my job is done here haha but i’m glad you like it \ I saw some of your stuff on deviant art as well and i like that your using traditional mediums as well as digital (: