The genesis of this story came about as a twitter post, specifically this one: https://twitter.com/MicroSFF/status/1402385207068614659.
I absolutely adored the microfiction and decided it deserved a full story. As it may be obvious from the submitted Sphinx story, I'm a big Neil Gaiman fan.
"Sphinx" is based on a dearly departed cat of mine, also named Sphinx.
About 6 years ago, I had to make a rather painful decision and put my cat Sphinx to sleep. He had had a lot of health issues and, alas, it became too much for him. I had had him for about 10 years at that point. We were never able to ascertain exactly how old he was, as he was a starving stray cat I found outside my apartment one day. Best guess was that he was about 5 years old and had clearly been abandoned.
This story was essentially the result of a confluence of different factors: giving my cat Sphinx a nice send-off, so to speak; trying my hand at doing a pastiche of Gaiman and Lovecraft; and working on my urban fantasy writing skills.
I was worried that it wouldn't be terribly good but I was apparently proven incorrect.
I suppose that dovetails nicely into the one piece of advice I can give to other writers: don't be scared to experiment, as you are often your worst critic.
Thanks a lot, Bruno! Very interesting!
Be sure to check out "The Dream-Quest of Sphinx" and the other stories on February 28!
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