In the elevator, non-retractable claws graze the small of her back, her flanks, her belly button. One barks Starbucks mocha down her neck: “Meeting in ten.”

In the open office, monitors wink, a chair screeches her way and dewclaws gently rub her shoulders.

“Tense?”

She leans away, doubting her disquiet.

Enza Vynn-Cara comes from a medical background and has a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing. Her short stories appear in Second Helpings, an Anthology with Recipes, and in Women Who Write with Elves, an Anthology, her flash fiction and poetry in Blink-Ink and Village Square.