Learned Behaviour
She watched on television the newly-hatched snakes immediately snaking off on urgent snake business and admired their purposefulness. – Just as she admired dogs when, dog-certain, they followed their confident noses to apparent predestinations. She would emulate them. She too would follow instinct not reason.
She ate a second cream bun.
Margaret Wilde © 2007
Saturday, February 24, 2007
LEARNED BEHAVIOUR - Short Story by Margaret Wilde
Posted by Willow at 2:46 pm
Labels: learned behaviour, Short Stories, Short Story
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