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One Tuesday, a local animal control officer knocked on the door, citing a noise complaint about "high-pitched chirping."

The wooden crate arrived at 3:00 AM, smelling of damp earth and overripe papayas. Arthur, a man whose life had previously been defined by spreadsheets and beige curtains, pried the lid open with a crowbar. Inside, two amber eyes reflected the dim garage light. Arthur hadn't accounted for the "nocturnal" part manifesting

Oliver possessed a five-inch tongue designed for raiding beehives, but in the suburbs of Ohio, it was used to unscrew the lids of maple syrup bottles and lick the condensation off the inside of the refrigerator. Arthur would wake up to the sound of soft, padded feet sprinting across the ceiling fan or the rhythmic thump-thump-thump of Oliver swinging from the chandelier by his prehensile tail.

“A very loud bird,” the officer noted, eyeing a stray piece of tropical fruit stuck to Arthur’s collar. He looked disheveled, his eyes bloodshot, yet there

He named the creature Oliver. Within forty-eight hours, Arthur’s quiet suburban life was dismantled. Oliver didn't sleep when the sun was up; he draped himself over the curtain rods like a golden scarf, snoring through the daylight. But when the clock struck midnight, the house became a jungle.