SELECTED STORIES FROM PRIVATE COLLECTION

            A woman was once walking through the forest, when she came upon a coyote stuck in a trap. Earlier, she thought she had heard the wrangling of chains and a ghostly whimper off in…

            There was once a golden crocodile who lived on the Nile with other crocodilians, big and small. One of its legs was missing, along with an eye, the former ripped off and eaten, and…

            Once upon a time, in a particularly plentiful patch of forest, an anteater quietly foraged for food, while keeping to itself as usual. Despite the dense foliage nearby, a wandering wildebeest rummaged there too,…

            There was once a weasel who got into the habit of sneaking into the house of a wise old Marseille tarologist late at night, to escape from owls, coyotes, and other predators hot on…

            As a man slept, his hands got to talking, which soon turned into an argument, in which all grievances were finally aired.             “All you do is work,” the…

            Surrounded on all sides by boscage and brush, a fawn once spotted a listless lizard on an exposed rock close to its hiding place, as the cold-blooded creature warmed itself in the Sun. So…

            In the latter half of the latter half of the industrial age, during a period of intense instability on earth, the animals of the world staged an uprising in which they attempted to overthrow…

            At age thirty-three, on a super-hot day, a young man wandered into a back-alley bazaar alone. No one said a word to him, or paid him any attention, and after a long time wandering,…

            Once a coyote spotted a squirrel up in a tree, storing nuts in a cache. Merrily, it laughed and, with its mind churning, called out, “Boy, am I glad to be me, born as…

            There was once a chameleon who could change its colors so well to camouflage, that it somehow forgot about itself. Perceptive as it was, with uncoupled eyes that noticed everything around, it no longer…