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    The Last Zoo, a short story
    The Last Zoo, a short story
    The Last Zoo, a short story
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    The Last Zoo, a short story

    By Sara Zaske

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    In a not-so-different future, an old zoo tended by a single janitor stands nearly empty and peaceful until a new intern arrives. He creates a few strange exhibits and shifts a paradigm or two in the process.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSara Zaske
    Release dateJun 10, 2013
    ISBN9781301598557
    The Last Zoo, a short story
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    Sara Zaske

    SARA ZASKE is an American writer who lived in Berlin for six and a half years. Her articles on her family's experiences in Germany have appeared on Time.com, in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Bild am Sontag, Germany's largest Sunday paper. She lives in Idaho with her husband and two children. Sara is the author of Achtung Baby:An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children.

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      The Last Zoo, a short story - Sara Zaske

      THE LAST ZOO

      A short story

      by Sara Zaske

      sarazaske.wordpress.com

      THE LAST ZOO

      Copyright 2012 Sara Zaske

      All rights reserved.

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      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      Thank you for downloading this free ebook short story. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This story may be reproduced, copied, and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the story remains in its complete original form. If you have enjoyed this story, please return to Smashwords to discover other works by Sara Zaske. Thank you for your support.

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      This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual events, organizations, or persons living or deceased is entirely coincidental.

      The Last Zoo

      The intern was all wrong. But then, any intern at the City Zoo would be terrible, even one without a ponytail and round, purple-tinted glasses. Still, the kid had a sextuplicate form, and the top sheet said that this Max Mejora, an anthropology graduate student at the State U, wanted to be an intern at the zoo.

      I don’t need any help, I said. Zoo’s been practically empty for five years. There’s nothing to do but tidy up.

      The kid eyed the name sewn onto my shirt. Franklin? Look, I’m not afraid of a little hard work. Maybe you can take it a little easy for a while. Rest your dogs.

      I wanted to tell him to shove off. I didn’t need to take it easy, and I resented the implication that I could be replaced by some unpaid college intern. I held my tongue. Truth was, I knew I couldn’t ignore the multi-colored, sextuplicate, carbon-copy government form he had. I held it by the corner to keep the ink from smudging. After too

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