Interzone Science Fiction And Fantasy Magazine #223 - Plot & Excerpts
A number of chimpanzees taught to sign as part of an academic experiment were abandoned when the funding for the experiment dried up. They were, as a result, almost certainly going to be sold to less pleasant primate research laboratories. One of the researchers, saying goodbye through the bars, signed: ‘Is there anything you want?’ The chimp signed back: ‘Key'."I suspect this is typical made-up Daily Mail garbage, but it is indisputable that chimps can sign. If there's a glut of unemployed chimps right now, we might consider putting them in charge of the banking system."* * * ** * * *Illustrated by Daniel Bristow-Bailey"Pervading this story is an uncomfortable sense of a political infrastructure only barely maintaining control in the face of ecological and technological change, which brought me back to the opening scene: the line of police in front of the jungle."I chose the low point-of-view to make the figures looming and menacing, but their poses look a little uncertain, like they're starting to suspect they're on the losing side.
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