But then the goat got up. It had fainted. The same thing happened again. And again. They realized: the goat was tiring of the bright studio lights. It wasn't psychic murder; it was animal exhaustion.
The following is a short story based on the premise of Jon Ronson’s non-fiction book (and the subsequent film), The Men Who Stare at Goats . It blends the absurdity of the real-life "New Earth Army" with a narrative perspective. The Men Who Stare At Goats
They didn’t teach you about this in basic training. They taught you how to clean a rifle, how to dig a foxhole, how to write a last letter home in under three minutes. They did not teach you how to kill a goat with your mind. But then the goat got up
Django watched the dust settle. The light seemed to go out of his eyes, replaced by a weary resignation Ray hadn't seen before. The irony was thick enough to choke a horse And again
As the Humvee roared away, Ray felt a cold pit in his stomach. "We're going to Iraq?"