Diana Radovan

Diana Radovan PhD ELS is the author of the hybrid memoir Our Voices, a Best of the Net award nominee, and a regular LiterNet contributor. Her fiction has been previously shortlisted in Listowels Writers’ Week Original - Short Story Competition, longlisted for the Disquiet International Prize, and published in Landing Zone Magazine, Hypnopomp, Flash Frontier, 121 words, Cease, Cows, Friday Flash Fiction, Quail Bell Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine and elsewhere. Find out more at dianaradovan.com.

The Swans

In front of the door of her building, Maria’s male black cat Dash is waiting for Steve’s cuddles. Steve lifts Dash up and kisses him on the head. Dash allows it.
— This thing could kill me, he says, and Maria knows Steve means Dash, as usual.
Steve places Dash back on the ground. Dash disappears behind the brick wall surrounding Maria’s garden. Maria and Steve go inside. Apparently, Steve is allergic to Dash.
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