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December 21, 2009
The Courage of the Lion Tamer by Anya Martin
The Courage of the Lion Tamer by Anya Martin is another story published in DayBreak Magazine.
The story tries to solve the problem of animal extinction in Africa. What do you do when the lions are all dead? Raise them in captivity, release them and televise the whole thing on IMAX screens. Like Big Brother for lions, but everyone wins.
That's only the set-up of the story which goes on to follow the release of one particular Lion, a release which doesn't go smoothly.
The writing captured a feel of Africa, and a sense of the wild animals, not overly flowery but enough to put me there. The story whilst not complicated kept me interested.
And of course the story is optimistic, the resolution leaving me feeling upbeat. Which is what DayBreak Magazine is supposed to be about, right?