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This story hit me hard when I read it as a kid. When I was young, I read another story with a similar emotional texture that I've been trying to find again for
by djsavvy 4y ago
This story hit me hard when I read it as a kid.
When I was young, I read another story with a similar emotional texture that I've been trying to find again for years now. It had a mentally challenged boy who worked in a restaurant with a lobster tank in the front, and the boy loved the lobster as a pet and stopped the restaurant staff from killing and serving the lobster. But one day when the boy was gone the lobster was killed.
I don't remember much but I've been looking for it for ages. I hope I can find it and read it again someday.
- ginnungagap 4y agoThis is probably enough information for the folks at the Science Fiction & Fantasy Stackexchange (https://scifi.stackexchange.com/ https://scifi.stackexchange.com/) to identify the story, they get similar story identification requests all the time and are crazy good at it. If you do ask make sure to include approximately when you read it and please let me know, I'm curious about your story too now!
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoPleas post it in a reply if you find out the name. My son loves lobsters and I’d like to get it for him.
- _tom_ 4y agoReddit tip of my tongue is also good for IDing old stories.
- killerstorm 4y agoWhat hits me hard is that the author emphasized that Charlie had the strongest emotional connection with Algernon, the mouse. I guess the reason for that is not only that Charlie saw himself in Algernon, as they were in a similar situation. But Algernon was the only being which did judge Charlie and his IQ.