Absurd, my boyfriend said, when I blamed the cat’s flip-flop behavior on its astrological sign, the pulsing flick of its tail twisting around my shins one moment, a sudden hiss and flight towards the hallway, the next.
Before the shouting starts, you hear the baritone bell on the far side of the canyon. A dog joins in with a howl, cutting through the chili-chili-chili of the morning birds and the gurgle of the fridge and the flick of your dental floss.
Author Charmaine Wilkerson, who won both the Sabateur Novella Award and Bath Flash Fiction's Novella-in-Flash Award for "How to Make a Window Snake", a novella-in-flash, is interviewed by Meg Pokrass
