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…
Read MorePrayer 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…
Read MoreMoo 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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,…
Read MoreSeconds 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…
Read MoreHowling at Osito Dawn Sperber __________ When I howl like a wolf, Osito sits before me like an attentive philosophy student. I think I gain a lot of clout in his eyes. He barks back, then rounds out his vowels like mine, and he gets so excited when he gets…
Read MoreLetter from the Editor Vallie Lynn Watson __________ This two-part issue was a bear (animal pun intended), and wouldn’t be possible without contest judge Ken Foster and Boudin‘s managing editor, Abbie Skinner. Abbie read all contest entries, blind, selected both the top ten, and then the top five, which we sent…
Read MoreDigby Beaumont is an award-winning artist. His artwork has been published extensively in collaboration with writers of fiction, poetry and music. He works on portraits, figures, still lifes, landscapes and a series of drawings on the theme of what it is to be human. He creates his artwork with acrylic paint,…
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