2025 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 8

Week two is officially starting! Usually by now, we have most of the crew that will be participating through the month showing up in the comments. I hope that you’re finding the community welcoming and fun! Don’t forget to comment on each other’s stories about what you like most—that is the most fun part of the WD community.

Today’s prompt is to write from an animal’s perspective.

(Note: If your story gets flagged for review, be patient—we will be releasing comments every few hours throughout the weekdays of this challenge. Our system randomly flags comments for review, so just sit tight and wait for us to set it free! If you run into any other issues with posting your story, please just send me an e-mail at mrichard@aimmedia.com with the subject line: Flash Fiction Challenge Commenting Issue.)

Here’s my attempt at a story from an animal’s perspective:

Teeth

The teeth caught the fox unaware. It sprang up from under the blanket of leaves covering the soft forest floor, glinting meanly in the moonlight. The fox screamed and thrashed, but the teeth were unmovable, silent. The fox struggled, gasped, begged—until it resorted to using teeth of his own.