Buffalo

Anne:

You just had to rise to the bait and go and ruin it, didn`t you?

Thanks, everyone. I`m CRINGING at the thought that I got the bird species wrong (I`m taking your word for it, FARANGI_KUSH); thanks, all the same, for pointing it out.

As for those of you for whom the story didn`t bring sufficient closure, here`s what happens next:

Anita forms an emotional bond with the young buck and learns a fine lesson from him: she takes no more cr *p from her mother-in-law, and finally rises above her insecurities regarding the ``status`` differences between her family and her husband`s. Intellectually, she has always known that she should be above feeling ashamed of her family`s significantly lower position on the socio-economic totem pole, but now, she actually embraces this truth. THE END

There`s a layered pattern of prejudice here--the in-laws look down on Anita`s family while Anita`s family want to run the black animals out of their neighborhood....

A good narrative.

Unentangled,non-symbolic prose.So refreshing & invogerating after so much borrowed/posturing psycho-babble here on chowk.

One thing though.There are no quails near any buffalo.If you didn`t know the name then may-be tick-picker birds would have been o.k.Groombirds is,I think,What they call them.

Anne:

Nice, but... ummm.. what happened NEXT???