If a bluebottle fly buzzes around your head, then settles onto your right hand, so you decide to call him Charlie, and he takes off again, flying straight into a windowpane, knocking himself out, and you accidentally step on him when getting up to investigate, has your pet just died?

Wayne Garry Fife is an anthropologist and writer who lives in St. John’s on the island of Newfoundland in Canada. He writes micro fiction, flash fiction, short stories, memoir, novels, and non-fiction. His latest book, published by Palgrave Macmillan, is entitled Imaginary Worlds (Invitation to an Argument).