I studied the pages carefully. I double-checked the title. “An encyclopaedia of animals.”

No wonder this was in the restricted section;my great grandma is the only surviving person I know who was there for the extinction of non-humans! They caused a threat,we were taught to believe that. I never did! She said that all animals were beautiful and innocent until a dog went rouge,it scared people so...

When I was little,I used to lay outside and reach my hands up to the sky above,convinced I could touch the great moving clouds if I just extended my arms a little further. My dad would watch me and let me dream while my mom shut me down saying I was too tiny to catch one. I vowed one day I would touch one,just to prove her wrong and she would laugh hard. My dad said “Your mommy is just jealous how...

I stare down at my hands

Like a beating drum in the bands

I feel my heart beat heavy

A pounding in my chest

I had to put him to rest

My heart cries but I know it was right

The pain wrapped my mind so tight

I cannot think straight

All this was a mistake

I cannot live knowing what happened here

Slowly the ringing in my ears

Builds

Builds

Builds

Builds

I look at my puppy

The innocence now bloody

My...