Enormous Graham and the Rhinoceros Princess

Graham was growing up in a house with mother, father, the goat and the rhinoceros. Mother and father were telling him not to grow anymore, the goat was baaaing, the rhinoceros was rhining. But Graham couldn't stop. His head was crushing through the roof, his body kept getting taller and wider.

It was the rhinoceros that loved Graham the most. She felt deep inside that this would not bode well for him. So, to save her playmate, she started climbing up his leg. Seeing this, the goat started following her. Mother and father wouldn't give up on their child either, so they set off after the goat as well. Sadly, Graham's growth rate surpassed their speed. Yet the rescue party refused to stop. Each and every one of them loved Graham too much to give up on him. And so, they bit their lips and kept on climbing.

On the road, the goat and the rhinoceros ate the grass growing on the now endlessly vast leg, and mother and father lived on the goat's milk. At night, they curled up and slept on the warm floor, mother and father sometimes quietly made love. As years passed, the goat got old, and mother and father had two new children. "One day we will reach the top and save your brother," mother and father told them. To make sure the kids were properly nourished, everyday they cut small pieces off the goat to feed them, and one day there wasn't anything left from the goat. Another day mother and father were very tired, "we should lie down here," they said, "we cannot carry on anymore, we need to rest." The children had realized that it was impossible to reach their brother, and even if they miraculously made it to his head, what could they do? One of them turned back and started on the way down. The other found even that road to be too long, so he opened up a fur shop right there. By now, this large land was populated by others, and he did not have trouble finding either animals to skin or customers to sell to.

But the rhinoceros was stubborn. Even after all these years, she could not abandon Graham. She teared up at every step, she missed him as intensely as the first day. Pushing herself with determination, she finally reached the vast Peepee. This collossal creature was so big that she couldn't see one end from the other. There were countless cities and kingdoms built upon it. Still, the rhinoceros knew inside that Peepee was a part of Graham, and therefore could hear its voice in her head. Peepee told her this: "O Beautiful Rhinoceros, for years I dreamt of a wife, yet loneliness is the curse of my life. I would give myself completely, to the one who'd love me sweetly. How wonderful you can hear me, O Beautiful Rhinoceros, you have to help me, you're the only one that knows." The rhinoceros answered thus: "Nyooorgh ghh." Peepee did not speak rhinocerish, but it didn't matter. It could see the light coming from the rhinoceros' warm, shining heart.

Her immense love for Graham made her grow tremendously, and the tiny rhinoceros suddenly turned into a gigantic princess. When Peepee saw the princess, it moved with the power of its love. As it stood up, the towns, cities, castles and palaces on it were shattered. The rhinoceros joyfully said: "Nyooorgh ghh ghh." Finally, the lovers could be together. But the rhinoceros princess' love was so great that she kept getting bigger and bigger. The princess could now see Graham right in front of her, but she was growing continuously, leaving him down below. She was expanding so fast that soon Graham became nothing more than a tiny dot. Graham was desperately trying to climb up his princess' leg. He was crying as he was crawling. He knew that he could never reach the top in his lifetime. The rhinoceros princess was also crying. Only now did she understand: She loved Graham so terribly much that she could never have him.