"As Henrietta cricked her neck back into proper working order and de-ruffled her plumage, a third party slunk through a tight squeeze in the wire-mesh fence. The stoat had tiny, beady eyes and a long snout split by a smile of mismatched teeth."

Check out Lyra's "Good Coop, Bad Coop" in issue 19 here:

https://onceuponacrocodile.wordpress.com/current-issue/good-coop-bad-coop/

#funny #humorouswriting #readingcommunity #anthropomorphic #animals #fox #hen #chicken #stoat #protectionracket #humor #humour #writingcommunity

"...Are you sure you’re not confusing him with that servant we had? You know, the one who was putting dead pigeons in people’s beds? Awful business. God knows why he was doing that, though I think you said it had something to do with an enchantment."

#readingcommunity #shortstories #shortstory #humor #humour #swordandsorcery

Thomas J. Young's #funny #fantasy #story "Rat Pack" in issue 19:

https://onceuponacrocodile.wordpress.com/current-issue/rat-pack/

"“Linil, you’re holding the button too long! Remember, short presses are for eye blinks, and the longer ones signal either thinking or sleeping,” Derna scolds.

“But don’t blinking and thinking co-occur? That’s what the operator manual says.”

“Here, let me do it!” Gilan grabs the console and pushes the button rapidly."

Nancy S Koven's #funny #shortstory "Mike and Margaret" is in issue 19

#humor #humour #fiction #aliens #scifi #readingcommunity

https://onceuponacrocodile.wordpress.com/current-issue/mike-and-margaret/