The stories are both interesting and a little weird. The first story ” Survivors”, takes a very different view on marriage. The narrator says that he hopes he dies before his lover. He doesn’t want to deal with his lover’s family. He knows that the family will not approve of their lifestyle, especially his lover’s father. He also knows that the family will secretly hate and blame him because he is the survivor. It is a shame that he has to feel this way about the family if someone he loves and cares about. It should never be this way between loved ones and their families.
The second story, ” The Colonel”, was very disturbing. It started off as a nice simple dinner. In the beginning, it seems as if the speaker doesn’t think that anyone would believe he was there. The scene turns from food to bad when the parrot speaks and the Colonel tells it to shut up. However, I was not expecting the Colonel to come back in the room with a whole bunch of cut off ears. The fact that he would not give the people back their rights makes it seem like he is a dictator that care only about himself and power.
The third story that I found both interesting and weird is ” The Talking Cat”. First of all, I have a problem that this cat can talk and then the speaker has a full conversation with the cat as if nothing was wrong with this situation. Then the speaker has the nerve to call the women who owns the cat jealous. It is her cat, why wouldn’t she be jealous? Your talking to her talk. Maybe she is the only one that the cat talks to. But my last question is why is the cat talking in the first place?
Briana N. Smith 
Ok, good. I think you can still expand here, say more and include more examples.