RW Drabble 2.0.090: Hawkish
This story was published in Fiction Shorts. The word is hawkish, and the prompt includes an animal wearing glasses.
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“Do I look hawkish?
Someone whose bite might be worse than his bark!
Maybe it’s the sunglasses.
What if I wore a hoody? Or a ballcap turned around? Please be honest. Is it the testicles?
If I was a cat, would you cross the tracks?
We tell ourselves stories about the animals we meet based on images in our heads, pictures that might have nothing to do with the creatures we encounter. We heard these tales from our parents, cousins, friends, and neighbors. They’re hard to dislodge.
But I’m not an effigy. And my eyes are sensitive to the light.”
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