Unserious postmodern paintings.

It had been promoted after the merger, though no one remembered voting for it. Now it attended quarterly reviews with unwavering focus,…

The eland had been told the observatory was upstairs, but after three wrong turns and a vending machine that only dispensed existential…

The blackbuck had been liquid for three days. No one noticed until the janitor mopped near its left flank and found his…

The meadowlark had spent three hours practicing its greeting in the mirror before dawn. It now waited by the fence, ready to…

The saiga had spent three days rehearsing its expression in the mirror of a closed gas station bathroom, convinced that sincerity was…

The otter had been told, by a passing albatross who claimed to have read the stars, that its existence was astronomically insignificant…

The gull had been mistaken for a decorative ornament during the house’s last renovation and left behind when the family moved out.…

The hyena had been waiting for the rain to stop inside, but the leak came from the ceiling, not the sky. It…

The kookaburra had been laughing for seventeen years straight, a sound so relentless it had been licensed as ambient noise for co-working…

It had been three days since the octopus last changed color, and it was beginning to wonder if it had forgotten how.…

The kudu had been promoted to Senior Unofficial Liaison three Tuesdays ago, though no one remembered signing the memo. It arrived each…

The sunbird had spent three hours preening not for mating, nor migration, but because the teacup’s rim had a chip it deemed…