Karen’s flash fiction can be read at Rebel Shorts, SpillWords, AdHoc Fiction, Down in the Dirt, Blood Puddles: An Anthology, CafeLit, Writing in a Woman’s Voice, Yellow Mama, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Wilderness House Literary Review, Postcard Shorts, Carpe Arte and forthcoming at, Stereo Stories, and Ariel Chart. The upcoming Group of Seven Flash Fiction Anthology celebrating the Canadian Modernist Landscape Painters is her first editorial/curatorial flash venture - http://GroupofSevenFlashFiction.weebly.com, @GroupofSevenFF.
She can be reached directly at: http://karenschauber.weebly.com
(The piece was previously posted in in Carpe Arte)
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Case Study
TIPTOEING
Mirabella takes care not to step on the cracks when she walks
down the sidewalk. The MARMOTS are abundant along the river side of MacArthur
Island, in Kamloops ... and they're not too shy! Walking quietly and carefully
with one's heels raised and one's weight on the balls of the feet, is the least
one should do.
WHISPERING
Mirabella carefully avoids discussing difficult or
sensitive subjects. ELEPHANTS have good hearing, detecting sounds as low as 14
to 16 hz (human low range: 20 hz) and as high as 12,000 hz (human high range:
20,000 hz). Whispering a message through ‘broken telephone’ is the polite thing
to do
HIDING
Mirabella does not turn on the lights in her
apartment at night. ANTS are social insects, so when one ant enters your home,
others follow. Mirabella hears the footsteps of armies marching. She buys plush
carpet.
BLENDING
Mirabella likes to wear high-contrast and bright
coloured clothing. The bat-faced TOAD found among the leaves of Amacayacu
National Park in Colombia is masterful at blending into its surroundings. Mirabella
has a playful side and is not trying to make life difficult.
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve
gotten lost.
‘Found Flash’