Stories tagged “zoo”

  • Drunken Koalas

    She stirred her drink idly, not bothering to touch it after realizing the sparks jumping off of it now and then. “So what’s this about drunken koalas?” she asked, tilting her head slightly forward to peer at him over her blue-rimmed g...

  • Hazel and Lou

    It was the last thing you’d expect to find in a swimming pool. But there it was, standing in the shallow end, looking down at its feet, most likely confused by the way the light entering the water made its shapely legs look bent. Hazel let out a ...

    • Author: Aurelia
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Hello Elephant

    If I am an elephant, you are too. Grey, and blowing bubbles in a mucky puddle from behind bars. I see my own reflection in the stirred water and it makes me flinch. Am I an elephant? How can I know when I see no elephants around me…when I am so alone...

  • Worse than Pandas

    “Surely, when the season’s right, they’ll … just get on with it?” the newly appointed Assistant asked as he struggled into his bulky fireproofed suit. The Chief Keeper snorted and hauled up a bucket of fleshy chunks, R...

  • Attack Of The Zombie Tuxedos!

    “Are you sure about this?” Stacey said as Jason helped her over the gate. “What if we get caught?” “Come on, this is supposed to be romantic,” he said. “I know, I just wish we weren’t breaking and enterin...

  • Safari Interrupted

    All the people had gone. After the alarms went off, everyone had mobbed toward the exits- a stampede of colors and noise leaving the zoo quiet and mysterious. Paul exited the bathroom wiping his hands on his pants. Randall, his best friend, glowered at...

  • Ignore this. Double post.

    I ran, pumping every ounce of engry into my legs. I had to get out of here. I had to. I pass empty cage after empty cage. Cages that should have been holding the zoo animals. But bars were ripped off, and glass containers broken. My lungs burned as I r...

  • Zoo Attack

    I ran, pumping every ounce of engry into my legs. I had to get out of here. I had to. I pass empty cage after empty cage. Cages that should have been holding the zoo animals. But bars were ripped off, and glass containers broken. My lungs burned as I r...

  • Graveyard shift at the Zoo

    I only paused to wipe the sweat off my brow with my forearm. “You know, I just don’t sweat, never have, I can jog, do a heavy workout, even if it’s hot out like this I never worry about it, I can…” I tuned him out as he we...

    • Author: Foolhearted
    • Posted almost 2 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • I Want To Hurt You

    You have rendered us impotent. I see the smiling faces on the young of your kind. They point at us. Some make faces that are intended to scare us. Right. I beat against the solid air and you jump back. Afraid. You recognize my power. Then I see it dawn...

    • Author: Elmore Jr
    • Posted almost 2 years ago.

  • Pandapocalypse

    The panda walks. Step by step, through this post-apocalyptic world. He is searching for the food that was once given to him hourly, for the the water that was available daily, and the comfort that was there all around the clock. He wont find it. And he...

    • Author: Red
    • Posted over 1 year ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • At The Zoo

    “Look at the birds! Oh, look at the birds!” The old woman, grasping a little boy’s hand tight as death stared, raptured, as the tiny balls of scale and fluff flung themselves into the air of the cage with the abandon of those that can...

  • Take me to the Zoo (or rather, don't)

    Arnold was irked. Actually, irked didn’t even begin to cover it. His first real job, his chance to make a mark in the world, and he’d lost the bloody rhino! “She’s our star attraction,” he’d been told. “Take good care of her.” Oh he’d...