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Trapped

Brian Looney

    He pokes his head through the brick-red bars, unaware, it seems, of his newly formed horns, approximately three inches in length, and curving. From behind the horizontal gate, his neck appears elongated, causing his head to appear larger than it truly is, and he thrusts his teeth out hungrily.

    He rests his throat upon the bottom rung and nips the sandy potato chips from the hands proffered, forelegs pressed against the steel. His shins rub horizontally along the bars as he attempts to push out further.

    And freshly lapping at his jowls, he pulls himself back in: only to find his head is trapped, caught by the newly formed, the arching horns, whose length he has been unable to account, and so finds himself in this predicament.

    Panicking, he reels his head back in, causing a mighty, forceful rattle. He is met by a series of whooping hoots, which only stokes his panic. His body struggles, quivers, kicks and lunges with all its might, until, fatigued, he resigns himself completely. And those hands, those same entrapping hands, they lay themselves across his head and gently free his horns. Smells of oil, salt, and sugar.

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