The Recreation of Animals Part Ten.
The Recreation of Animals, Part Ten:
The enclosure was crowded. The animals all looked wistfully
out the window. Since they had metal skin and bloodstreams of frozen snow, she
let them outside to wander the frozen tundra. Every morning they left the
enclosure, but every evening they came back home.
Bernadette and the animals huddled around the hearth and
told stories. The animals told stories of their tundra explorations. Stories of
bleakness and white and of an infinity of snow. She told them stories she made
up. Stories of make believe lands full of oceans and forests and lakes and
animals.