Kat Beyer's "Extract from Hither & Yon: A Few Places We Have Been" (flash fiction, free): On human nature

This almost poetic piece is the first one to reach me from among may be a dozen odd stories I've read from The Daily Cabal. An alien scholar describing the observed human behavior in very simple language. Beautiful.

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First published: The Daily Cabal, 13 October 2008.
Rating: A
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Kat Beyer's "A Short History of the Supreme Democratically Elected Tyrant" (flash fiction, humor, free)

While a well trodden plot, it brought a smile or two. Crazy proclamations of the "Supreme Democratically Elected Tyrant" of "the tiny country of Beetroot".

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First published: The Daily Cabal, 19 September 2008.
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Rating: B