“How’d you find your runaway goat?”

“We simply followed his spoor.”

“How’d you know it was his?”

“Before he left, Billy ate a magazine with one of your stories in it.”

“How’d that help?”

“Billy found some of your prose was indigestible. You could say he left a toilet-paper trail.”

John H. Dromey has some hundred-word stories (four new, one reprint) in WORLDS: A Science Fiction Microfiction Anthology (Dark Drabbles Book 1) (Black Hare Press, 2019).