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Submitted to Contest #189
They told me it would be like this. . .that I would be mourning the death of a fox, a wild fox, who had spent a little of his wild life with me. But I hadn’t chosen him, it was he who had chosen me as a companion for about five minutes a day for just over a month. Even on that first day I could see he was quite scrawny. They told me he probably had rabies and I should steer clear of him and call animal control, but he wasn’t aggressive or foaming at the mouth. What he was was old and, I believe, wanting a companion on his march to death....
Submitted to Contest #187
Our first disagreement came over her name. I had always wanted a Siamese cat whom I could name after the one in the movie Bell, Book, and Candle. Not that Luna looked or acted like Pyewacket. I’m pretty sure Pye was a purebred chocolate point, while Luna was a mix of lilac point and tortoiseshell, which might have accounted for her not being cross-eyed or hugely talkative. Still, Luna was probably going to be my only shot at having a Siamese cat in my lifetime, so I really wanted to rename her. Alas, she was having none of it. “Luna is my na...
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