I don't *think* I remember anybody posting this one before--
"The End of a Dynasty, or a Natural History of Ferrets."  It's an excerpt
from a collection of fantasy stories by Angulica Gorodischer, translated
from Spanish by Ursula K. Le Guin.  Although this is a story about a
child, it is not a children's story (no very graphic stuff, but certainly
mature themes).
 
http://www.lcrw.net/kalpa/end.htm
 
Regina
 
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"Is that my business?  Well, what is my business?  Do I know?  Did I ever
know?  Let s not go into that.  You re not human tonight, Marlowe.  Maybe
I never was or ever will be... Maybe we all get like this in the cold
half-lit world where always the wrong thing happens and never the right."
--Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
[Posted in FML issue 4421]