Q: What would your animal totem be?
A: Do you choose your totem, or does it choose you? I suspect the latter, in which case the answer is a raccoon. I have unintentionally shared too many a backwoods meal with these little beasts to say any different. I am defeated; they are smarter than me. I will aspire to their cunning, and when I one day pass beyond the veil, perhaps they will allow me to join them as the least of their number.
Jack Neel Waddell’s story “Rooks on Sundays”
in Metaphorosis Friday, 1 November 2019.
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