A gecko: not the hiss or croak for me | Helen Sullivan

The gecko licks its eyeball seductively: I mean, have you seen my feet?'

It is evening, and the world seems to go still for a moment, as though some kind of signal has been lost. You hear a tiny bark. There in the corner: a gecko. If the corner is in an apartment that is in a suburb in a city in Malaysia, you hear a cicak", in Bangladesh, tiktiki".

Where does this tiny reptile get the confidence to make a sound like that? Not the hiss or croak for me," it says. The gecko licks its eyeball seductively: I mean, have you seen my feet?