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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My Little King
I once had a childhood dog and cat. I called us the three musketeers. An unlikely match, all born together, growing older together. A great white Pyrenees, a fluffy gray cat, and me. Every birthday we would take pictures. Just this year when it was our thirteenth birthday, Momo, my dog died.
I hugged him before school, like I do everyday. When I ran to say hi to Momo, he wasn't there. He was sleeping endlessly in the garden, I sat there crying. Now my pictures only have two and a stone. Now I watch my cat slowly leave too.