A monkey addicted to caffeine,
A lovesick tortoise,
And a story of betrayal, friendship, hope… and murder.
The Rainriver Zoological park is home to a wild cast of animals, from the hyena desperately looking for her cubs to the macaque searching for his next cup of coffee. A bored elephant passes her time counting whatever she can get her trunk on. A lion who has never seen freedom pines for the far-off veldt. And a duplicitous crow hops from cage to cage in search of victims for her next prank.
Life in the zoo is woven of tedium and despair, but when one of the animals escapes, his quest to reunite with his lost love turns the entire zoo on its end. While the whole park searches for the errant tortoise, a video contest inspires a massive surge in zoo admissions, and the added pressure builds like a volcano on the verge of eruption.
Passed from one cage to the next, The Zoo Diaries is a tale of animals. It is a tale of humanity. It is a tale of justice that arrives like a shot in the night… or doesn’t arrive at all.
First published in serial form in Metaphorosis magazine. Now available in its entirety.
Get your ticket to the zoo today.
Genre: Literary Fiction
A lovesick tortoise,
And a story of betrayal, friendship, hope… and murder.
The Rainriver Zoological park is home to a wild cast of animals, from the hyena desperately looking for her cubs to the macaque searching for his next cup of coffee. A bored elephant passes her time counting whatever she can get her trunk on. A lion who has never seen freedom pines for the far-off veldt. And a duplicitous crow hops from cage to cage in search of victims for her next prank.
Life in the zoo is woven of tedium and despair, but when one of the animals escapes, his quest to reunite with his lost love turns the entire zoo on its end. While the whole park searches for the errant tortoise, a video contest inspires a massive surge in zoo admissions, and the added pressure builds like a volcano on the verge of eruption.
Passed from one cage to the next, The Zoo Diaries is a tale of animals. It is a tale of humanity. It is a tale of justice that arrives like a shot in the night… or doesn’t arrive at all.
First published in serial form in Metaphorosis magazine. Now available in its entirety.
Get your ticket to the zoo today.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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