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Submitted to Contest #338
We were a little outside of Akron. Six or seven miles. I only stopped off to pick up more frozen mice for Woody. He was out, and we still had another couple of weeks on the road. I didn’t need him to start thinking that I was on the menu, not that he would. He is what you could call a working animal. I keep him supplied with rodents, and he keeps thieves and unwanted lowlifes out of my rig. I parked my truck along a fence line next to the feed supply store. Thing is, this feed store is right next to a pizza shop. And someone had propped that...
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