Puppy Shaman

I think the demon that was inhabiting our puppy has changed bodies to our older dog.  Hanu, our older  dog is the least aggressive dog I’ve  ever met.    He’s willful and distressingly smart, but never ever aggressive.  I’ve seen him run full tilt at an angry stranger dog at the dog park and flip mid-air…

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Possessed Puppy

I think my puppy might need to be exorcised. We were looking for something friendly and mellow. It didn’t matter what breed or mix it was as long as it was healthy. Cute would be a bonus, because it’s harder to hate cute when the inevitable messes happen. We brought home a puppy, cute friendly,…

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Alien Agent

I think my travel agency has been taken over by aliens doing tolerance testing on unsuspecting humans. The agents’ accent sounded Venusian, but it might have been Martian.  Maybe North Martian near Planum Boreum, it’s hard to tell over a staticy phone connection.  At the beginning I thought she was being helpful, but over the…

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Brownies

When I was very small, I was a brownie girl scout.  The uniforms were tiny brown pinafores with wool beanies.  Even I thought they looked old fashioned and I was 4 years  old.  In hindsight, I think I assumed they were old fashioned because anything that made old ladies barely bigger than I was coo…

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