They Told Me I Could Only Take One Dog Home Until I Saw What Happened When They Tried to Separate Them

with his muzzle in the slow deliberate way of an animal saying something it has no other means to say.

He died as dawn was beginning, with Beans against his chest and Margaret’s hand on his back and the fire still burning low.

The silence in the house afterward was different from the silence she had arrived home to after her husband died, different from continue reading …