Short fiction from the Beastly Facts universe - each series told from the animal's point of view.
A house rabbit who is quite sure the garden - and everything in it - belongs to him.
Follow along in this Otis the bunny story — a charming short fiction about one determined rabbit navigating the big drama hiding in very small moments.
A squirrel raids Otis's garden and gets away clean, leaving him to face an uncomfortable truth: there might be a whole world beyond his fence he's never once considered.
Otis spends eleven days building a rival worthy of his fence line, then finds the gap in the boards and discovers the truth is a lot smaller than the legend he invented.
Dozing in his hutch on a hot afternoon, Otis dreams that he can fly, rising above the only garden he's ever known to see its whole shape, and the neighborhood beyond it, for the first time.
Mike drives Otis to a friend's backyard farm for the first time, where he meets a hen with just as much confidence about her turf as he has about his, and learns the world beyond his fence is bigger, and considerably more crowded with self-important small animals, than he thought.
When Mike agrees to pet-sit a friend's guinea pig, Otis has to share his prized sunny corner with a chattier, far more anxious houseguest than himself. It takes a piece of romaine lettuce to settle what territorial pacing alone could not.
Otis stays out past his usual hour and finally meets a danger unlike the dog, the squirrel, or the cottontail before it: a real owl, low and silent over the grass, teaching him in under two seconds that the sky is not entirely his.
Otis falls asleep under the hydrangea and wakes up leading a grand expedition across his own garden turned continent, over the Sea of the Undrained and up Mount Compostia, before opening his eyes to find how small his kingdom really is.
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