Liz writes from Massachusett's Pioneer Valley.
Her story Carnival Love appears on The NoSleep Podcast (Season 21 Episode 17).
Read recent stories: Loose Lips at Flash Fiction Magazine, Suzie, Sammie and Me at MacQueen's Quinterly and Buried with Abilene at 50-Word Stories.
She has work forthcoming in Vine Leaves Press's 50 Give or Take and in Black Hare Press's Year Six Anthology.
She's been a Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, and Best Small Fictions nominee.
LizMayersWriting@gmail.com
The Lives of Cat Ladies
He can’t go with me,” said the old woman cradling a tabby while I pawed through cat toys piled on her yard sale table. “I don’t know what to do.” Through bleary eyes, she saw me. I reached for her cat. “Wait here,” she said. And returned with two more.
First published at Blink-Ink, Yard Sale #51.
I Keep My Promises
I tossed a spoonful of Auntie Calida into the blizzard. I’d warned her, “Leave me your cremains and I’ll fling your ashes into a snowstorm.” She despised cold weather.
“You won’t, Jamie,” she’d chuckled. “You’re such a goody two shoes.”
She had me there.
Living with funerary urns spooked me, and despite my wicked threats, three relatives said they’d entrust me anyway.
I tossed another spoonful out the window. Forced responsibility flying away.
“Who’s a goody-goody now, Auntie?”
I promised my mother, a vegan, if she foisted her cremains on me, she’d season my beef bourguignon. She said I wouldn’t dare.
First published at 100 Word Stories writing as Elizabeth Zahn.
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