Thylacine – Lydia Millet

As rapid warming, pollution, habitat destruction, and insidious
violence against other species speeds up the rate of extinction and
edges ecosystems ever-closer to collapse, what voids are left in
the tapestry of the living world? In this short story, novelist
Lydia Millet imagines the plight of the last remaining Tasmanian
tiger—a creature caught in the crosshairs of Australia’s settler
narrative, eventually hunted to the point of extinction. As a man
seeks the company of the tiger, housed in a failing zoo, he summons
the courage to care for what remains amid an overwhelming sorrow
for what has been lost. Read this story on our website. Find
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