30 Days of Fiction, Day #12: All Good Dogs
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(Inspired by a 30-day yoga challenge at my yoga studio, I'm writing 30 flash fictions in 30 days. One a day. 100 words or less. Time limit: 15 minutes. You can read all of them here.)
The husband and the wife killed the dog. They hadn't been married that long, and in some ways it felt like the first important they had done together. The wife looked around to check on the dog in the backseat. It was hanging its head out the window and smiling. It had no idea what was coming. The husband and the wife stood on either side of the vet as he injected the chemicals that would kill the dog. Six hands on the animal. The husband crying. The dog leaving the earth.
Time: 11 minutes
Word count: 92