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Stories
by Karen Russell
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Behind me, the bellows intensify. I walk faster.
Most people think that gators have only two registers, hunger and boredom. But
these people have never heard an alligator bellow. “Languidge,” Ms. Huerta, our
science teacher, likes to lisp, “is what separates us from the animals.” But
that’s just us humans being snobby. Alligators talk to one another, and to the
moon, with a woman’s stridency.
Excerpted from St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell Copyright © 2006 by Karen Russell. Excerpted by permission of Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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by Christina Lynch
In this whimsical mystery, a grumpy pony must clear his beloved human's name from a murder accusation.
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