It is October 28, 1962. The world stands ready to destroy itself; only, there are jaguars. There are magical jaguars, spinning endlessly around the Earth. They work their jaguar magic to avert the Cuban Missile Crisis.<\/p>\n
They become angry.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is unfair,\u201d growls Ixchel. She\u2019s a jaguar concerned with justice.<\/p>\n
\u201cI blame the Mayans,\u201d sighs the jaguar, Chan, who is more concerned with blame.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we could only,\u201d says Bahlum. \u201cIf we could only \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
He doesn\u2019t finish his sentence. Everyone knows. They experience a moment of solidarity as they spin around the world.<\/p>\n
This was not the life the jaguars had expected when they were young and the world was new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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