Name: Last Chance To See
Author: Last Chance To See

A small blue jacket hangs beside an open wooden doorway, stacked paper cups and an orange. — Original artwork

Here the man in blue crimplene accosted us once more but we patiently explained to him that he could fuck off.

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A tall dark ceramic vase with a fine crack and a small metal spring rising from its rim, beside white flowers on pale mint. — Original artwork

He was tall, dark, and laconic and had a slight nervous tick. He explained that he used to be just tall, dark, and laconic, but that the events of the last few days had rather got to him.

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Fractured indigo tabletop mirror showing several stylized anonymous faces with broken glass at its base — Original artwork

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

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An orange and pink ribbon of static flows from an old computer screen across a small desk beside a wooden chair. — Original artwork

I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

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Painterly worn leather boots pointing opposite ways atop a wooden signpost in a dry landscape. — Original artwork

I say roughly, because the gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency declaration forms, and official bribery, and tend to wander backwards and forwards across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.

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Two small chicken figures and a blue fish sit in a cat-faced bowl beside a curling red ribbon. — Original artwork

I think I prefer fish, said Gaynor. Kiri explained that she was wrong and that she preferred chicken to fish. Westerners, he explained, preferred chicken. It was well known. Fish was only cheap food for peasants. We would be eating chicken, which was sexy and which we preferred.

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A brass magnifying glass lies beside a closed olive notebook, a pale feather and small leaves. — Original artwork

My role, and one for which I was entirely qualified, was to be an extremely ignorant non-zoologist to whom everything that happened would come as a complete surprise.

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A small wooden porch with a rocking chair and a glowing ember-red doormat stands before lush green leaves in misty darkness. — Original artwork

Somewhere not too far from here, toward the middle of the island, there may have been heaven on earth, but hell had certainly set up business on its porch.

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A curved wooden strip sits beside a worn eraser and a curved chalk mark on a dark slate surface. — Original artwork

The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.

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A glass marble with an eye-like center resting on dark cracked paving. — Original artwork

There is something profoundly disturbing about watching an eye that is watching you, particularly when the eye that is watching you is almost the same size as your eye, and the thing that it is watching you out of is a lizard.

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Painterly black tire partly buried where rough soil meets broken grey pavement. — Original artwork

The road suddenly turns out to be impassable because it's being rebuilt by the Chinese, only we're not supposed to know that. And exactly what is meant by 'suddenly' I don't know because they've apparently been at it for ten years.

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A glass sphere holds copper gears intertwined with moss and small ferns on rust-coloured cloth. — Original artwork

The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realised that it was a system at all and that it wasn’t something that was just there.

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Three carved theatrical masks in black, charcoal and pale grey show different degrees of frowning against slate. — Original artwork

They like their meat bad and smelly. We don't like our meat like that and tend to be leery of things that do. I was definitely leery of these lizards.

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A small empty wooden dinghy floats in front of an immense dark swell. — Original artwork

“You’re proposing twenty hours on a boat-” “A small boat,” added Mark. “On violently heaving seas-” “Probably.” “With a three-day-old dead goat.” “Yes.” “I hardly know what to say.”

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