Mother Black Bear sits on her haunches under the heavy limbs of the crabapple tree in the backyard. She rubs her eyes, her long snout, and looks up at the stars and sighs as if she, too, has been awakened by the clock...
Familiar Talk
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Kristin Tenor
Kristin Tenor finds inspiration in life's quiet details and believes in their power to illuminate the extraordinary. She is the author of the flash fiction chapbook, THIS IS HOW THEY MOURN, which won Thirty West Publishing House's 8th Wavelengths Chapbook Contest guest judged by Shome Dasgupta. Her fiction has appeared in Best Microfiction, 2024, Wigleaf, Bending Genres, X-R-A-Y, 100 Word Story, and various other literary journals and anthologies. Kristin's work has also been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize, as well as longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50. She currently serves as a contributing editor at Story.