The Usuaia Rabbit
A short story by Fernando Sorrentino
A short story by Fernando Sorrentino
Four illustrations based on Fernando Sorrentino's The Ushuaia Rabbit. Many small illustrations were drawn, traced, traced over again, using watercolours, ink, contae and chalk. These were then pieced together on
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I just read in a newspaper: “After long months of futile attempts and several expeditions, a group of Argentine scientists has succeded in capturing the Ushuaia rabbit, thought to be extinct for over a century…”
I took off my shirt and waited, stock still and bare skinned. “Easy, easy, easy…” I kept saying. When I got close I slowly deployed the shirt as if it were a net.
It only takes eight to ten hours for the skin to completely regenerate. Vanessa had visions for a great scheme: each night she could skin the Usuahia rabbit and sell its fur. I would not allow it.
We have formed a solid friendship, and sometimes we need only look at each other for mutual understanding.
