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The climax of Hay & Howdahs is not a kiss but a death: the camel develops a tumor. Barnaby, the horse, learns to pull a cart to the edge of the zoo, fetching medicinal herbs from a ruined greenhouse. When the camel finally dies, Barnaby lies down in the camel’s enclosure and does not rise for three days. Readers called it “the most devastating romance of the decade.”

And that, after all, is what romance has always been: the audacious hope that the bars between us are not the end of the story. J. H. Willowby is a cultural critic specializing in fringe narrative tropes and animal symbolism in digital fiction. Their book “Tails, Tropes, and Turnstiles: The Zoo as a Stage” is available now. zoo sex animal sex horse work

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