Life with a Puma in my Heart
By Laura Coleman Sweat cascaded down my face, dripped hot and wet down my back and fused at the base of my spine. Mosquitoes buzzed around me, a black cloud tha...
By Laura Coleman Sweat cascaded down my face, dripped hot and wet down my back and fused at the base of my spine. Mosquitoes buzzed around me, a black cloud tha...
by Josh Flatman The torturous drip…drip of water from my roof into one of the plastic tubs on the floor has ceased for the time-being. Peering through my ...
The Kill List by Ann Cefola He said his friend worked at the ASPCA or something. He paused. Actually euthanized dogs, pit bulls mostly… Unable to listen, I see ...
A Hyacinth Macaw by Eileen Malone The pet shop hung with giant black iron coops holds exotic birds a hyacinth macaw, newly captured the only one to survive the ...
Afterworld by Susan Richardson Here, all animals are equal, equal in extinction. The Moa, long ago an is-no-more, dozes with the Golden Toad; the Aurochs should...
by Alex Lockwood On the half hour walk between our cottage and the seabird sanctuary at the far northeast tip of the island, Luis would spontaneously stop and e...
by Dorene O’Brien She was ambling through the woods toward Iceberg Lake when she noticed the hikers and scrambled off the path, her two cubs trailing her dutifu...
by Sally Huband The antidote to a Shetland winter is the song of a Shetland wren. This is my fourth winter on these islands and it has been by far the worst, en...
by Julian Hoffman As the sun rose over the mountains I walked a treeless ridge that buckled into the hazy distance. A vast summer sky cradled a few threads of c...