Boudin April ’24 Pet – Page 2

Pre-Obituary for a Rabbit

Pre-Obituary for a Rabbit Francis Walsh __________ pre-obituary for a rabbit he was, he was, he was asleep on the carpet and stretched like a strand of dough his paws tucked beneath his chin perhaps dreaming of hay fields and bananas and all the other morsels that occupy the wide-eyed…

Dread

Dread Randall Brown __________ Attie shone the iPhone’s flashlight in her sister Isabel’s face and, with her left hand, knocked her awake. It had been only six hours since their dog Lucky returned after a week, mad, foaming, stumbling through the gates and into their seven acres on the Philadelphia’s…

Know That

Know That Sir Henry Chugs __________ __________ Back | Next To learn more about submitting your work to Boudin or applying to McNeese State University’s Creative Writing MFA program, please visit Submissions for details.

Let the Bodies Hit the Floor

Let the Bodies Hit the Floor: A Cycle Alexa Doran __________ If you attended the funeral for my Trapper Keeper’s iron-on patch, Frank the Frog, in my fifth grade homebase, or watched me lug a dog dish over to my golden retriever Lisa Frank folder, you are likely unconvinced by…

Prayer

Prayer Grant Faulkner __________ If you’ve ever tried to find a lost dog and failed, you know the meaning of life. __________ Grant Faulkner is the co-founder of 100 Word Story, the co-host of the Write-minded podcast, and an Executive Producer on the upcoming TV show, America’s Next Great Author. He recently published The Art…

Moo Speaks

Moo Speaks Robert Hamblin __________ There used to be three of us, but one left and didn’t come back. Now there are just we two. I miss her, I know he does. I can tell when he sits quietly on the couch where they often sat together. He just sits…

The Bigger the Cage the Larger the Lizard Will Get

The Bigger the Cage the Larger the Lizard Will Get Tiff Holland __________ 1. She comes home to find the cop running his new jean jacket through the gravel and oil in the driveway. He is trying to make it look weathered. He has already sewn Harley Davidson patches on…

Fences

Fences Len Kuntz __________ Stevie Nicks must be barking just to hear herself because there’s no one there, and then before leaving the house I am suddenly nine years old again and our own dog, Pepper, wants to bark but Mother has had its voice box taken out, she’s had…

The Hologram of the Cat

The Hologram of the Cat Meg Pokrass __________ Today, Muffin barks at the front door for an hour. She nips at our ankles, though not in a painful way. Not in a way that means, ANIMAL ALERT. What is it, girl? we say. Maybe it’s the hologram of the cat,…

Seconds

Seconds Nicole Monoghan __________ Gramps would narrate what he thought the dog was thinking based on her facial expressions and body language. She sat tall on a loveseat, her long face blank. “I’m over this,” Gramps flatly declared, as the voice of Ruby’s thoughts. I laughed. Ruby got up in…