Octopus by Zilla Babbitt

Amadis the octopus seller had never tasted an octopus. A long time ago he lived on the banks of the Campisi—but that was a long time ago, and he doesn’t live there anymore. Nowadays I hear he lives in a deflated balloon in Mongolia somewhere, but I don’t tell stories in the present, I tell them in the past. Amadis the former octopus seller who probably lives in Mongolia is a lot less interesting than Amadis the octopus seller who lives on the banks of the Campisi.

So a long time ago he lived in a fish stall by the Campisi. He didn’t sell fish because I don’t think octopi are fish. He sold octopi. The fishers and fish traders came to him from a haul in the Campisi and he’d buy their octopi and sell it to the people who ate octopus for fun.

But he never ate the octopi himself because when he did his face grew red like a blackberry and his tongue green like a coconut and his breath constricted and felt like fire in his lungs. So he tried to avoid eating octopus.

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