So Adorable!

I was so proud of my new novel (The Ultimate Alpha on Amazon Kindle) having scenes unlike anything ever written before, but apparently I was wrong. I spotted your picture above and thought immediately of the following excerpt:

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“Look, Mr. K, I’ll help you if I can, but would you please take off that stupid mask? It’s annoying the hell out of me.”
“Mr. K” sighed, head and shoulders drooping.
“Well, the Big Reveal had to come sometime,” he said. “Might as well get it over with. Brace yourself.”
“Why? You that ugly?”
The masquerader clapped a glove to either side of the kangaroo head, just under the safari hat. He twisted a time or two and lifted.
He worked the brown, furry, muzzled head off to reveal – a tan, furry, muzzled head.
I don’t know how long I stared. Long enough for two mule-type ears to spring slowly erect like stepped-on grass stalks recovering. They had been pressed flat beneath the mask.
The new marsupial smiled, revealing mousy buck teeth. His eyes – real eyes now, not dark holes – were green-brown, with human-like whites. Furry skin wrinkled up around them due to his huge s%@#-eating grin.
“You’re a kangaroo,” I announced unhappily.
“’Fraid so, Ma’am,” he said.
“Disguised – as a kangaroo . . .”
“Truth be told, Ms. G . . . It was the only suit that fit.”

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I'll soothe my ego by pretending the above art was created for my book! Except with different coloring.

It IS a great portrait, after all!