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Chapter 3

  Chapter Three Three Rescues More       There was a superstitious belief in the African landscape, believed by many of its inhabitants and denied by many others, that black leopards were embodiments of immense misfortune. The same superstition would not have been widely believed by Asiatic creatures, due to black leopards being far more plentiful in the Asian continent. The king cheetah could only hope that his clan’s matriarch would be comfortable with a black leopard cub being amongst her clan, and that she would not lose too many subordinates if she accepted the cub into her clan. It was approaching sunset when the king cheetah and the painted dog made it back to their clan’s territory with the two orphaned leopard cubs. The clan had begun feeding on a rhinoceros mother whom their black-backed jackal companions found trapped in dried mud. The rhinoceros’ skin was too thick for the jackal family to have bitten into themselves, but they luckily had th...
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Chapters 1 + 2

  Chapter One The Dog and the Cheetah     A lone survivor of lions’ wrath, a solo dog needed new mates. Allies of spots and of backs o’ black were with whom she was bonded by fate. Black and brown and white is her coat. Her kind is the most distinct. Her whole pack dead, and less dogs to befriend – – – the distinct is becoming…… extinct.   ––––– Song of the Packless Dog     It was a bright afternoon over a South African savanna when a cheetah was scouting about with ten unusual companions of his. Whereas most male cheetahs form coalitions upon nearing maturity with three or so other male cheetahs, usually including littermates, this cheetah had been found orphaned as a cub with no siblings near him nor in proximity to his nest. He was too young to have been able to follow his mother whenever she looked for prey, and one day, she went on what ended up being her final hunt. The orphaned cub was guarded from predators by an un...
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Post-CYE Finale: Larry David and Friends' Influence on Animal Guy

Welp, the years of comedy fans waiting for whenever the next season of Curb Your Enthusiasm  airs have come to an end. I may as well write a blog thanking Larry David (and his Seinfeld co-creator, as well as others) for many hours of entertainment, and for their influence on my creative pursuits. I started watching Seinfeld reruns not long before Season 7 of Curb Your Enthusiasm , which was when my dad introduced me to Larry David's HBO sitcom  ––  and it so happened to have been the Seinfeld  reunion story arc, which was basically an anti- Seinfeld reunion. My dad and I got two seasons of Curb during my high school years. The six years between Season 8 and Season 9 were long, but we survived.......... And Season 10 premiered in 2020, the year the entire world became affected by COVID-19. Having to ditch my job for a life of quarantining with two high-risk parents, I had quite an overabundance of free time. There was a dispute between HBO and our TV provider...
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