The woman with the golden retriever approached the man with the rottweiler.
‘Can we say hello?’ She asked uncertainly. No sensible answer followed.
After the first sniff, barks from the male side began to pierce the air with the intensity of military exercises on the training ground. No chance to be amicable this time.
The friendly intentions of a woman and her dog were crushed on the sidewalk under a mass of vile rubble.
About the Creator
Mescaline Brisset
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.
so you want to be a writer? – Charles Bukowski
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