Animal Husbandry And Other Fictions

The stories in Animal Husbandry all deal in some way with mythology, from animal fables to imaginary friends to the myths people tell themselves.

Jeff Fleischer’ s fiction has appeared in more than seventy publications including the Chicago Tribune’ s Printers Row Journal, Shenandoah, the Saturday Evening Post and So It Goes by the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library.

C O N T E N T S Animal Husbandry 1 The Querulous Nightingale 16 Goody Good 25 Granddad’ s Ballgame 29 Clarksdale 36 The Oracle’ s Curse 44 Crocotta 55 The Cat 59 Seaweed and Salt 79 The New Shepherd (A Fable) 87 Redundancy 93 White Clis 111 Sentenced to Life 116 Silver and Gold 138 Paying the Piper 160 Spare Change 178 About the Author 185 Acknowledgments 187 Publication Credits for the Stories in This Book 189 About Running Wild Press 191