The Wordsmiths Book 2021

I, Ocelot

I have always resented the idea of cookie cutters; how something so sweet, and savoury, and perfect, could be made just like the others. I am a product of an ocelot-shaped cookie cutter, my cookie perfectly made with all the imperfections of my ocelot blueprint. until the cutter informed me that it was beknownst to it. Something so solitary, and self-sufficient, and territorial. Me. Made just like all the other ocelot-shaped cookies in the box. I had just come to terms, with my solitary nature,

Andre Vasquez

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