Critters and Crises: a Flash Fiction Menagerie

by Jemima Pett

Overview

In ten years of short-story writing—mostly flash fiction of 1000 words or fewer—there are definitely favourite themes I return to.
Animals.
I have a penchant for writing from an animal’s point of view. Whether it has something to do with having my desk right next to my guinea pigs, I don’t know. Some authors have cats sleeping on their keyboards, but they don’t write about them. Or they do, but only occasionally.
I appear to write at least four animal-based stories a year.
Between these pages you’ll find dragons and other fantasy animals, cats, rats, insects, guinea pigs, birds, cows, foxes, bears, raccoons, sea creatures, viruses, and supernatural beasts. I don’t think I have any fish. Maybe I should do something about that sometime.
Some are straightforward nature stories, but most are fantasy, speculative fiction, weird, or a mixture of genres, known as a mash-up.
PS: I consider these to be for grown-ups - or at least YA and upwards :)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164813840
Publisher:	Princelings Publications
Publication date:	03/04/2021
Series:	Unexpected Twisty Tales
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	409 KB

About the Author

Jemima Pett has been living in a world of her own for many years. Writing stories since she was eight, drawing maps of fantasy islands with train systems and timetables at ten. Unfortunately no-one wanted a fantasy island designer, so she tried a few careers, getting great experiences in business, environmental research and social work. She finally got back to building her own worlds, and wrote about them. Her business background enabled her to become an independent author, responsible for her own publications.

Her first series, the Princelings of the East, mystery adventures for advanced readers set in a world of tunnels and castles entirely populated by guinea pigs, is now complete. The tenth and final book, Princelings Revolution, came out in October 2020. Jemima does chapter illustrations for these. She has also edited two volumes of Christmas stories for young readers, the BookElves Anthologies, and her father's memoirs White Water Landings, about the Imperial Airways flying boat service in Africa. She has compiled four collections of flash fiction tales, publishing in the first half of 2021. She is now writing the third in her science fiction series set in the Viridian System, in which the aliens include sentient trees.

Jemima lived in a village in Norfolk with her guinea pigs, the first of whom, Fred, George, Victor and Hugo, provided the inspiration for her first stories, The Princelings of the East. She is now living in Hampshire, writing science fiction for grown-ups, hatching plans for a new series, and writing more short stories for anthologies.