Arrrgh.
I didn't realize this was a short story until I finished it, so the ending really punched me in the gut!
This was such a great little story about humanity and intelligence and identity and belonging...all those good things. Our protagonist is an intelligent ape, created through an experiment that failed on all the other subjects. She is alone in the world, the only one of her kind, made by humans who didn't really know what to do with her now that their experiment had succeeded once. Now she's a "person" and lives her own life but it's very lonely. This story was so sad. ( )