An Extract from This Month's Release: Crickets
I've decided to celebrate each release with a series of extracts that run for the month it's released in. This month saw the second edition of 366 Days of Flash Fiction released. Links to the collection can be found at Books2Read at: https://books2read.com/u/b6MrN0 Crickets Written on December 2, 2015, for the March 15 entry of 366 Days of Flash Fiction , this piece was inspired by the very loud cricket chorus going on outside my back door, one Canberran summer night. The crickets were singing so loudly, I couldn’t hear myself think—and that was a problem. The crickets were singing so loudly that, not only could I not hear myself think, but I couldn’t hear anything that might be approaching… until they got close enough to make the crickets stop. And time was short. They were coming, and I had to be gone when they got here, even if I was sneaking out the back, when they came in through the front. That was the joy of working in a highly competitive business. I wor...