Leopard

From: Antigonish Review | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: Sonik, Madeline | Copyright information

Into this place of darkness, the night, this corridor, rolling like a leopard's shadow, a streak, through the jungle, light pouring spotted patterns through the leaves. Cheryl knows nothing of the jungle and the leopards who live there, only what she's seen in her sister's books square solid windows siphoned from her sister's shelves, opening to fall through, her body rocking.

Her sister, Kitty, fiddles with gold hoop earrings. "Why does that tard always get to come into my room!"

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