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Orphans [MultiFormat]
eBook by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description:  A woman befriends an elephant wandering the streets of her city, and begins a powerful and unsettling relationship.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: McSweeney's 15, 2005
Fictionwise Release Date: April 2007
9 Reader Ratings:
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: eReader (PDB) [19 KB]
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Words: 1483
Reading time: 4-5 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
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I have bought the elephant a new green suit. I have bought him a car. I buy him anything he likes.
When I found him, he was naked. He was dusty, from the long road. He had been running, running, in panic and in fear. He did not trumpet. His skin was smooth, not wrinkled like most elephants'. It was the first time I had seen an elephant like that, in the streets of my town. Without the protecting bars of the zoo, without the pity I feel when I sketch the elephants at the zoo. Without indignation at zookeepers and adventurers and hunters. Without shaking my parasol in a zookeeper's face, like a foolish old lady.
He was there in the street, enormous. His skin was shiny, it seemed a color more vivid than gray. An opalescent gray.
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