At least once a semester, a student will ask me for examples of stories written from the point of view of an animal. Today, with help from the good folks of the Creative Writing Pedagogy board on Facebook, I’ve put together this little compendium. Maybe it will help you, too.

“Sun Dogs” | Brooke Bolander | Lightspeed Magazine | #dog

“The Infamous Bengal Ming” | Rajesh Parameswaran | Granta | #tiger

“Little Roy’s Roving Reptile Zoo” | Jim Powell | Fiction Southeast | #snake

“The Great Silence” | Ted Chiang | Electric Lit | #parrot

“After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Was Drowned” | Dave Eggers | #dog

“The Burrow” | Franz Kafka | THE COMPLETE STORIES | #badger

“The Barn at the End of Our Term” | Karen Russell | Granta | #horse (although technically these horses are reincarnated presidents, so it’s kind of a hybrid human/animal p.o.v.)