Animal Fables III: Penguin

Once upon a time, there lived a shiv­er­ing penguin.

This pen­guin was hor­ribly aller­gic to ice and snow. It brought him out in a nervous rash, made him sway unstead­ily and did funny things to his brain.

Not a good situ­ation for a pen­guin, as I’m sure you’ll agree.

How­ever, what this pen­guin couldn’t deny was that the severe chill of arc­tic con­di­tions scin­til­lated him, gave him goose­bumps (well, it would, wouldn’t it?) and gen­er­ally made him feel alive.

So, put­ting off the idea of mov­ing to the sunny coasts of Por­tugal and liv­ing in a villa, he threw him­self back into the deep, crisp snow­drifts. Lying there, star­ing at the clear, cloud­less sky, he shivered like he’d never shivered before.

“Face facts, you fool,” he thought to him­self. “It’s cold, but it’s most def­in­itely home.”

The End.

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