Fatima Habib

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“An Elephant and Her Sister” by Fatima Habib

Submitted to Contest #193

There once lived two elephants beneath the dense canopy of a mangrove forest. These two were born as sisters and they both lived under the care of their mother. “Mother” was what they called her because they knew that that was who she was, their mother, the one who had given birth to them. Aside from the fact, there really was nothing motherly about her. She woke them in the early morning, spraying them with cold water,  trumpeting at them to feed her and keep her company, as if she were the child and they were the parent. She treated t...

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