Random First Line: “I think I am your daughter…”

I think I am your daughter, she said.

The giraffe looked at the hippo skeptically.

Then he remembered the night: a giraffe, a monkey, and a hippo walked into a bar…

It wasn’t a joke. It was a night of steamy, awkward sex.

He quickly counted on his cloven-hooves. It was 43 days ago…8 months ago.

Flashes of round rumps, silvery skin, and a tangle of legs—tall and short, furry and smooth—filled his mind.

The giraffe leaned down and looked closely at the hippo. Sweat dripped down his nose and into the pond.

The hippo looked down at the pond.

Um, excuse me? she said.

Y- y- yes? the giraffe stuttered, nervous she might be right.

The hippo responded, I said, I think you’re in my water.

He looked down.

He was.

In love and liminality,

Annie Rose

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