Welcome to Brungle Farm, the last stronghold of the indomitable Brungle twins, Bees and Clarafina. Alongside them live twelve laborers and their families, subjected to the twins’ unyielding rule reminiscent of their formidable grandfather, Grandpa Brungle. Their reign is as rigid and crushing as any tyrant’s, their whims leading to the spilling of workers’ blood merely for amusement. When they are not the centre of the twins’ cruel games, the workers are treated with disdain even the farm’s cockroaches would find familiar.

Soon, an enigmatic figure known as Leader approaches the farm with a proposal for Bees. Leader seeks to leverage Bees’ influence as the face and voice of a burgeoning political party, aiming to seize control over the entire country. However, the anticipation Leader harboured for weeks rapidly curdles into alarm upon hearing of a man named Petrus, a serene ex-priest. Despite being cruelly uprooted from his home and forced to toil on Brungle Farm, Petrus has been sowing seeds of hope among his fellow workers. Word of Leader’s murderous intentions for Petrus and the rest ignites a series of events that, after a night of destiny, will forever alter the face of Brungle Farm.

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Wryter Gavlin is a writer from Cape Town, South Africa. He has been writing for three years, and this is his first publication. He hopes that you enjoy reading it as much as he did writing it. Read more Continue reading Read less