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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We were adopted by a black cat in 1988
She flattered the adults, selecting our porch, allowing pets.
A breeding-machine, pregnant at that meeting... Soon, inside, she gave my sister her soul-cat, an aloof mostly-white-calico.
A year later, another brood with a black-grey-mackerel, more-than-kitten.
Nine, I insisted.
Mom said: such an ordinary cat?!
Love at first sight, she was anything but; eating paw-to-mouth, sleeping stretched mummy-like in bed, riding out chores like a boa; she'd sled in winter, swim-n-fish in summer.
In my absence she shadowed the hi-shelves; when home, she lived under my shirt.
She had a litter and ate them.
I forgave her.
They were stillborn.
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