Critters and Crises: a Flash Fiction Menagerie

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.
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