Sadly, it won't be delivered by The Suzenator Herself:
but it will come directly to you delivered by a uniformed representative of the federal government. Or by a good-looking muscular guy in brown shorts. Your choice!
Turns out our winner, Phoenix Sullivan, is a query shark in training!
You might consider getting her advice; I think her writing is pretty darn good.
"Java?"
The dog whines at her name and paws my hand.
She's a Labrador. Black, like uncreamed coffee or the fading night.
Hope had been a Golden, a sun-filled garden, her bright devotion burning like Hannukah oil for eight precious years.
Black, though, is a color I understand. A bond buds where I thought no new would grow.
She waits patient in her harness. I take up the handle, eager yet cautious, aware she's my freedom, my salvation. My own miracle worker, ready to serve.
"Forward," I say to Java -- but what I'm really saying is good-bye to Hope.
5 comments:
Wow, that was good.
Oh my! This is fantastic. I've heard the "buzz" over Personal Demons. Can't wait to read it!
Delicious, indeed!
And as long as the fed isn't, you know, a Fed, I'm happy to take my chances with them. :o)
I think this might be the best 100-word story I've read here.
My Mom, who has loved many dogs in her life, agrees with me.
That's a great short story.
Always, I repeat always, choose the good-looking muscular guy in brown shorts.
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