To the Tail
Surviving on Short Notice
chapter 8
by
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Hour after hour, you tread further and further down the back of this godlike dog. Its movements through the stranger’s house don’t quite register at your size, and the living land below you keeps you firmly entangled under its many thick hairs. You notice too that the ground is becoming noticeably harder to walk across due to the subtle accumulation of dandruff and loose skin cells, both the dog and its owner have neglected.
The dog’s owner has long since gone to bed and you guess it to be sometime around midnight. The Labrador is sprawled out on its bed snoring loudly. Up ahead you can see the long, almost endless stretch of its fluffy tail, and below it, somewhere unthinkable. You think you might be able to wake the dog up from here, but was that really the smartest move in your fragile position? Eventually, you decided to…