HOW TO TALK TO CATS by Emma Uriarte
Fall asleep. Wake up to darkness, the sound of tiny nails on cardboard. Find the mouse, dead for real this time, before work.
Emma Uriarte is a Southern Californian writer who somehow finds herself living in the rainy Pacific Northwest. This may have something to do with earning an MFA from Oregon State University, where she now works as an instructor of writing. Since her apartment does not allow pets, she spends lots of free time time wandering the neighborhood and petting friendly cats. Her fiction has appeared online in Flash Fiction Magazine, and she is currently working on a YA novel.