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Not Exactly a Dog [MultiFormat]
eBook by Bruce Holland Rogers
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eBook Category: Science Fiction/Horror
eBook Description: A pet store owner shares tales of the frightening risks that humans encounter when dealing with alien animals.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Alien Pets, ed. Denise Little, 1998
Fictionwise Release Date: October 2001
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [77 KB], eReader (PDB) [31 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [17 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [17 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [39 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [88 KB], hiebook (KML) [71 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [48 KB], iSilo (PDB) [14 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [19 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [28 KB]
Words: 5166
Reading time: 14-20 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
I'll tell you what my customers want. Some want novelty. For them I imported the fire lice, filled up half the store with them. I don't have many left. By the time every kid in Luna is using them for nightlights, I won't be selling them. Novelty customers will want something else. A few customers want danger. See that pressure tank? Got a Yill inside. Go ahead, have a look. Putting a chlorine breather like that in your living room is like eating fugu fish every day. If the seal breaks, your oxygen kills him, but his chlorine gets you. Then there's fragility, the pleasure of owning a pet that's notoriously difficult to keep alive. A paperwing, say. Or the Yill, for that matter. Beauty. There's this couple who can't afford to buy yet. They come in once a week just to stare at my sungazer. Fascination: buying a hive of trigger wasps to watch them build. But I'll tell you what most people want. Most people want a dog.
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