A New Celebration | Flash Fiction for WOW555 and WriteNow Challenges

In honor of America’s upcoming Fourth of July celebration, I decided tocombine the WOW555 and WriteNow challenges in a holiday-inspired piece of fiction. I don’t believe I’ve ever written from the perspective of a non-humanoid, so it was a fun exercise, and I hope you all enjoy reading it. Without further introduction, here’s the story:

A New Celebration

The stale air draped over Tennyson. Cocooned in its warm stillness, his eyelids drooped as he let out a snuffle, and then readjusted his h...