Carol Jeffers

Carol Jeffers is a professor emerita living in Pasadena, California who has published The Question of Empathy: Searching for the Essence of Humanity (August 2018). Her work has appeared in a number of literary journals, including Wordgathering, Ponder, Connotation Press, Entropy and Wild Roof, and she received an honorable mention in Streetlights 2020 writing contest. Blueprint is her debut novel.

Blueprint

By the end of the third day, the house, so quiet, too quiet, understood it had been abandoned. Four more flies, proboscises quivering, investigated the garbage pail. Molly no longer controlled the kitchen, would not be wielding the swatter, and without a care in the world, the creatures flitted among the odiferous scraps. They would settle later, raise a family or two, and replace the human family now departed. Read more.

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