People had stopped coming to see Elsa. She couldn’t imagine why.

This new home had even less space and light than before.

Then the van stopped moving. Blue sky and the smell of savanna burst through the open door.

“Just hope you still remember how to hunt,” said her zookeeper.

Gaining a Masters degree from University of South Wales in Scriptwriting, storyteller Peter Gaskell’s screenplay ‘Pigs in Muck’ featured in the Lockdown Monologue Film Festival recently. His poems have been published in the Atlanta Review and Places of Poetry as well as reviews of theatre, books, film, and concerts in Wales Arts Review. As a commissioned ghost writer his work as a novelist has been published while he is currently seeking an agent for his own novel ‘Shaman’s Blues’.