The Memory of Animals

by Claire Fuller

That I’m here because I’m only decisive when someone tells me I shouldn’t do something, and that’s an idiotic reason.

He once admitted that he would sometimes masturbate to my most mundane messages.

For the first time it occurs to me that maybe this pandemic might not work out that way but my brain cannot imagine what sort of world we’ll be left with.

I’m sorry to be so graphic but I’m apologizing on behalf of all of us humans. You should brace yourself, there’s worse to come.

his body elongating to the width of the pipe in the way that humans and their possessions will expand or contract to the size of the space we’re given.

“Humans are useless at learning from their mistakes. We just have to keep making new plans,” Piper says.

I let him talk some more about neuro plasticity, synaptic strength, the entorhinal cortex and glutamates.

“You know what they say,” I continue. “If you go home with somebody and they don’t have any books, don’t fuck ’em.”

Hydna was a diver from Ancient Greece who, together with her father, contributed to the destruction of the Persian navy in 480 BC by cutting the boats free from their anchors.

It is possible to fall in love with an octopus.

Wary of mating and then being devoured, some male octopuses will make dens near the females so that they can simply reach with their hectocotylus around the rocks and mate with their neighbour without ever leaving home.

“We just have to make the best choice we can and try to think about the consequences for other people when we do it.”