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This story was originally published in Day One, a weekly literary journal dedicated to short fiction and poetry from emerging writers.
There are a lot of ways to get stuck in a run-down aquarium in a dead-end town at the end of a highway that might as well run one way. But Doug is more stuck than most.
As the newest exhibit in the local B-grade aquarium, Doug the dugong spends each day inside the finger-smudged glass walls of his prison dealing with heckling from snotty field-trippers. It isn't long before he tires of people calling him "the manatee's ugly cousin" -- what's a dugong to do? But when he discovers that he has a strange connection to the beautiful aquarium attendant that allows them to communicate, Doug thinks he's finally found someone sympathetic to his plight. Spun with quirky, sardonic humor, Aquariums Are for Children and Creeps is the story of Doug, who's too lumpy to free himself but will do just about anything to escape.
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