Finalist Terrain.org 15th Annual Fiction Contest essy was afraid to touch the baby’s head. The baby, just three weeks old, was asleep. The dog, an ill-tempered nine-year-old mutt named Mohawk, needed a walk. Urgently. Her husband, the official dog-walker, had headed back to work that morning after his brief paternity leave, jaunty and freshly-shaven, smiling up at their brownstone windows before disappearing into the day. In order to walk the dog, she needed to wake the baby. The baby, […]
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