Traps are everywhere. We cannot venture out. We are cornered in this house we called home before the enemy showed its face.
All exits are blocked. Food supplies are dwindling. This is war.
Last night he chased us behind the refrigerator with a broom. Called us vermin.
We are doomed.
Alison Cooper is a UK artist residing in Los Angeles. She loves the challenge of culling words to get to the core, and has had her short stories published in Everyday Fiction and 50-Word Stories.
Likely no 50-worder has been accompanied by a better ad than this one. However, which of the species does Cooper’s story propose to exterminate?
LOVE this story! It’s dramatic, suspenseful and SO cute and witty!
It’s Kafka! Bite size. Tart. I feel for the vermin.
Brilliant!