One Flipper Away

In a Hut

   Sitting in a small pool at an animal sanctuary exhibit, there is a sad beach ball floating on the surface of the shallow, murky, water. The gate makes clanging noises as the wind moves it back and forth. And in a hut there is...what a man once called, a beast. This is no normal beast, this is Mr. Tusk as folks around Pippy Hill called it.
     What is the real name of this creature? This...once a human...walrus is named Wallace.

     Wallace sits in his hut day after day, waiting for his life to finally be over. Suddenly a kind looking man in a gray vest is walking past the...almost abandon sanctuary. "Who is this?", Wallace thinks with his brows scrunched together. He notices the gray hairs and hipster glasses on the man's face. As well as the slicked back hair. Of course! Of course it could be no other than Howard Howe, the man that turned him into the monster he is. It's him! Wallace wails out to him in an angry manner. He wanted to warn Howard to stay away from the sanctuary. Howard turns around. Howard cannot believe that his old friend, Mr. Tusk, has been subjected to this! Howard thought he was just going on a simple vacation to L.A.

     Wallace could not believe it either. He couldn't believe that Howard was alive. Wallace remembered his last encounter with Mr. Howe, the fight. He imagines the skin ripping, the bloody curdling screaming, and the terrible consequences of both. He thought he killed him with the very bones of his legs.

     Howard walks up each step up to the dock and waves to Wallace. Wallace
refuses to come out of his hut. "Ooh my flippered friend, what's wrong little guy?" Wallace rolls his eyes knowing that Mr. Howe is just as mentally fucked as he was when Wallace was in his possession.

     "Don't worry my large toothed pinniped", says Mr. Howe. "I'm a changed man." Wallace finally pokes his bald head out of the "home" that the employees at the sanctuary created for him 8 years ago.

     "Agh." Wallace agrees that Howard could have possibly changed himself while in prison. But Wallace still does not know if he could have changed himself for the better. He is yet to find out. Or maybe, just maybe, he'll wait there inside that hut to die instead of eating the slip that the sanctuary tried their best to feed him without staring in horror.