Familiar is a flash fiction short story about a black cat familiar named Willow who is about to meet her new witch apprentice.

Familiar

“This must be the place.” Willow stopped in her tracks and gazed up at the small brick home. The light from the full moon bathed the worn cobblestone road in a soft, subtle glow. The small black cat licked her paw before heading down the driveway to the house. She still wasn’t used to her feline form. “Yes, this is definitely the place,” Willow said to herself as she silently carried herself closer to the house. Willow knew she had found the right house, as she could feel a faint, yet distinctly, magical energy emanating from one particular room of the home. Though Willow hadn’t yet met the young witch in this plane, the energy felt very familiar.

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The original version of this story appeared on my writing website that I created for a class I took at SNHU (a free WordPress site that I only used for the purposes of that class. I’ve since created a real writing portfolio site). I revised it and published the new version on Hubpages.

The original version can still be read here: Familiar by Jen Ný.

Please feel free to use both versions of this story as an example of how authors revise their stories between drafts.