Lost and found is my eureka! blog, my rediscovery of my short fiction and poetry submissions published in literary magazines and university literary journals some decades ago. Interspersed, occasionally, with more recent, hitherto unpublished pieces.
Two very small back runts. Nowhere near as plush as their intact counterparts sporting their long, luxurious tails. These two tail-deprived ones have managed to gain their special talents prodded by necessity, the will to survive despite lack of advantage.
They create their adeptness, physical dexterity and balance without benefit of a tail. But, male and female, they do differ. Stumpy preferring to consume all the peanuts which, one by one, he cadges from us, through typically bold entitled confrontations.
While Stumpette, eager but cautious, hesitant yet trusting (neither consulting with one another, for each lives separate lives on opposite ends of the forest divide) takes each proffered peanut, to prudently bury within her forest-floor pantry to be retrieved when need is dire.
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