The water has started to rise and there are snakes. Full-grown anacondas fleeing my basement, yellow and gray and black, and I wonder whether it’s common for people to coexist with snakes, hidden until a natural disaster drives them out into the open. Yet that’s exactly what I seem to have been doing. Coexisting with […]
The crater that had been my high school football field was filled with water and the water was roiling with dolphins. Or what I thought were dolphins, but turned out to be dolphin-size salamanders, the kind with frills on their cheeks. “Gila Monsters!” I shouted and ran inside the school. I’d meant Komodo Dragons, not Gila […]
It’s true that cats can suck the souls out of other living creatures. No question. Human babies most famously, but also rodents, reptiles, birds, bugs, dogs and certain ornamental plants, and they do it as casually as you or I might pluck low-hanging fruit from a tree. Only under extreme circumstances do cats consume the bodies of animals larger than themselves, of […]
