O*W*C member Joy V. Smith has a “flash fiction” piece up at Every Day Fiction.

“Here’s the family’s file, Ken. Elmer Boardoff has a small dairy farm.” Jeff passed the file to his colleague. “His wife, Elsie, however, got their milk from the famous E line cows — the regular ones; apparently the chocolate flavor suppresses the ESP talent — at that experimental farm near them. That’s how it happened. At first no one believed the boy when he said he could talk to animals, but when they started doing tricks for him, people noticed.”

I’m enormously taken with the idea of psychic cows.