Word count 100

                                           

The town came to the zoo based on the promise of a special exhibit of animals captured with great difficulty.  The audience was truly impressed.

“My god, they are ten times our size.”

“They are bellowing so loud they can be heard ten towns a way.  The shrieking hurts my ears and might leave me deaf.”

Despite their fear the people stuck around, mesmerized by the crazed beasts.  They trusted the extra thick bars in the cage.

Their trust was ill-advised.  The humans broke out of the cage and stomped the crowd into the ground.  Three thousand Xanians died painfully.

Appears in A Story In 100 Words. I tried to get it into an animal anthology, but didn’t get a response. The story asks the perennial questions “Who are the real animals?”