Tag: family
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See the Tree, How Big it’s Grown…
Honey (Labrador; blonde, too fat) exhibits all the cool intelligence of her breed. Wide brown eyes, folds of extra flesh that cushion her head as she sleeps, a judgmental poise that speaks of wisdom as old as time. She surveys her territory from her French windows with an imperious air, where her growl of […]
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Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Ostrich
There’s no putting it off, no burying your head in the sand. It’s time. Reach into the back of the narrow cupboard, scrabble determinedly among the boxes of forgotten essentials – those things you swore you couldn’t live without, ten years ago; untouched since then, save in the cause of this one annual mission. No, […]
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Mario, Maria, and Something Slimy in the Night
It lives somewhere, in some chamber dark and drear I know not of: I know only it must be damp, and cold, and these things are all my consolation, because it hates me and I wish it in hell. At night it moves, sometimes silently, sometimes with barely audible stealth. But I hear it, and […]
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