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Rick Wilkerson sat on a park bench watching a flock of pigeons absolutely devour a homeless man. He took a slow bite from a ham on rye, beside him his lunch bag the only other witness to the strange crime. To be certain, this wasn’t typical avian behaviour. He knew he should run away, but he’d never seen anything like this before. Shock kept him seated here, he supposed, and if he was being honest a bit of morbid curiosity, too. The world had been such a mess over the past decade or so. It seems nature had finally caught up. Or had enough. The news was full of stories from around the globe — unusual stories — of nature turning on man. Cats stealing cars. Dogs burning down houses. A school of trout broke out of a fish farm off the East coast of Canada, then targeted and sank three fishing boats. They’re still at large. Some people blamed the particle accelerator in Switzerland, saying it inadvertently unlocked dormant super-evolution genes in the animals or some nonsense, but Rick…

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