The Sky-Calf in the Socks

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1. Page 1

   With a squawk and a snap of string, something fluffy tumbled out of the morning mist and crashed into Arjun's washing line. Pegs flew like startled sparrows. When the line stopped bouncing, a sky-calf dangled at the edge of his tiny island, wrapped in three of his socks, its long kite tail fluttering over the drop.

2. Page 2

   Arjun untangled it slowly, humming until its trembling stopped. Its wool smelled of rain and warm bread. Beyond the wind-looms spinning clouds into ribbons, he spotted its herd drifting away on a distant island chain.

   Three rope bridges lay between here and there, each swaying like a hammock in a gale. Arjun tucked the calf under one arm, gripped the rope with his other hand, and did not look down. Not once.

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