Lore

by Bob Heman
72 words

The stork brought a baby bear to the hunter and a baby fox to the frog and a baby chicken to the wolf. Each was raised to adulthood by its new parent in the same way they would have raised any child. The bear was taught human ways, the fox frog ways, the chicken the ways of the wolf. Later, when they talked with each other, they became filled with strange ideas.

Bob Heman's work has appeared in Quick Fiction, Paragraph, Sentence, and many others. A collection of 33 pieces, How it All Began, is available as a free download from Quale Press at http://www.quale.com/How_BH.html

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