Wild Fires"The Dog"
by Roddy Doyle
Rating: 6.8
Short story about a middle-aged Irish couple, Joe and Mary, who get a dog. She’d been gone for a couple of hours. He watched her taking off her coat. The ear had been the start of it. Years ago now. Mary had been kissing him.
1 comment:
sucks to lose stuff.
it starts strong and is good up until the dog is lost. Overall it seems like a typical story of loss with some bad luck mixed in. I didn't really buy the whole thing about several prank calls on their missing-pet flyers.
a favorite line:
She smacked him on the back, a loud whack that didn't hurt but shocked him. She hit him again. More a thump this time—his shoulder.
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