SHORT STORY of WARD COURIER: The Designer's Tale: "The Palatine Lion," Continued

From the unpublished novel "The Roycroft Tales" (c) 2001 by Ward Courier under the pen name Mason Winfield

"This creature was like no natural animal whatsoever. There's beauty and symmetry about all natural creatures. Even the predators are beautiful. But not this 'Critter.' It, I am sure, was something that once may have walked the earth, that may have been one of the many ...