Challenge
November 2024 Drabble Challenge: Tell me about your favorite pet
I lost the best dog I've ever had this year on Dios De Los Muertos. I'd like to think there's a cool symmetry in that, and maybe a few stories in my future, but right now, I'm pretty well just mourning the fuck out of my loss. She was awesome. She'd sit next to me in my recliner, upright like a little person, and watch movies with me. So tell me about your favorite pet in a drabble, how bout it? Winner gets a prize. Rules: exactly 100 words using standard grammar, spelling, and punctuation, prose only please. Don't tag me, I'll read all the entries and pick a winner in early December.
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Small Cat has white socks and a white mustache. She’s a matriarch with mocha markings and a heart of gold. She’s a hunter; once, she killed a gray squirrel big as she was. My foster-mother, my baby, she’s both. Why should something like that have to suffer so? I always try to give her a treat on her birthday. She’s partial to yogurt and she thanks me by sitting back on her haunches, lifting up those little stocking front feet, and bonking her head on my hand. Just make it one more year, old girl. We need you down here.