Here’s one of my mother’s pieces of flash fiction, first published by the American International Women’s Club in Geneva. I hope you enjoy it as much as others have.
Day after day, he came to the park and sat on the bench beside her, sometimes a little too close, but she pretended not to notice. After a while, she’d get up and move away. She wasn’t about to get involved, not after Ambrose. It was too painful.
She loved being out of doors, and she was lucky to live across the street from the park, where she could sit under a tree, in dappled shade, reading or writing another one of her short stories.
Her thoughts were adrift in the old Alexandria of her youth, so she wouldn’t hear him approach, but, when she turned her head, he’d be there. A little scruffy, a little thin, but proud nonetheless.
He sat very still, gazing straight ahead, though he often fixed her with his eyes, which is what got to her in the end.
“Look here,” she said to him one perfect spring day when the crocuses were out and she could stand it no longer. “You need a good meal.”
He sneezed.
“You’re not well.” She hesitated. “You can stay with me, if you wish.” She rose and stood looking at him for a moment, then gathered him in her arms. “You purr even louder than Ambrose.”
Does anyone else here write flash fiction? I’d love to hear from you.
Meanwhile, these posts may raise a smile:
How My Mother Wrote Her First Book
Pills & Pillow-Talk 
Clever!
But I think there were more dogs in the park!