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    Crazy Tails
    Crazy Tails
    Crazy Tails
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    Crazy Tails

    By Margaret Gregory

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    Three of these stories are based on real creatures I have known, but their names have been changed to protect the not so innocent. The incidents are real, the events happened, but the telling is tempered by nostalgia and the POV – that’s where the fantasy comes in.
    Spend some moments as a mouse, a possum, a cat and a rabbit.
    Feel free to leave a review and your guess as to which of the main creature characters are entirely fiction.

    All these stories have been published in The Australia Times Fiction or Unearthed Fiction Magazines.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMargaret Gregory
    Release dateAug 24, 2016
    ISBN9781370640454
    Crazy Tails
    Author

    Margaret Gregory

    I have loved writing stories since I was in high school. Now...some years later...I am enjoying making them come alive again.After being a scientist for years, I have since turned to writing fantasy for upcoming publication and creating science articles for The Australia Times.

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      Book preview

      Crazy Tails - Margaret Gregory

      CRAZY TAILS

      By

      Margaret Gregory

      Copyright © 2013 by Margaret Gregory

      All Rights Reserved

      Smashwords Edition

      ****

      This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental.

      ****

      Please note that I use Australian spelling throughout. You will see ou’s (colour) and ‘re’ (centre) as well as a few other differences from American spelling.

      Contents:

      As I see it - the Possum view

      The Killer and the Kitty

      Temptation

      The Ninja Mouse - an urban fairy tale

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      As I see it - the Possum view

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      The scent of sun-warmed earth, carried on a cooling breeze, was in my nostrils when I woke. The light that blinded my eyes during the day, was fading. Time to wake up. Time to find food.

      Inside my snug, tree-hole, I began to stretch - my claws grabbing wood. I pulled myself up so that my nose was at the level of the hole. My nostrils twitched, trying to sense the fainter smells of human, of dog, of cat, of danger.

      Human? Dog? Yes, sounds of human voices - some shrill, some deeper. Yaps from some dog, small by its tone. The ones that liked chasing things. Not me though, not this time.

      I wasn’t truly hungry yet. I would wait, watch.

      Full dark was my element. When the humans had returned into their odd shaped caves, with odd toned light coming from holes in the sides. Usually, but not always, the dogs went away at dusk too.

      When the silence had come and stayed, I moved cautiously out of my hole, dug my claws into the

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