Horror Haiku Club Prompt

September 6 - Reaping Gangs

Before machinery, harvesting crops on time was a community effort. During the harvest, gangs of able bodied young men would travel from farm to farm, mowing down crops as quickly as they could.

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Your prompt is REAPING GANGS

Many scythes in hand

Reapers stalk the fecund fields

All fall by the blades

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Women and children followed the reapers, bundling and tying up what they cut down. This term is tough to research online, so here’s where I found it.