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Submitted to Contest #285
**TW: Animal Suffering** 31 December 1999 Wandering the streets as a puppy, Pancakes saw families in the park. Their laughter and cheer were as painful to him as it was joyous to them. He didn’t fault the dogs' joy or obliviousness that he was tucked behind the trashcan nearby, observing them and how he wanted to be like them. He only dreamt of the day he would have a family, too. He had been on his own for so long, without his siblings, without a pack, and no guidance to get a family. As it turned out, a twist of fate would resolve this for...
Submitted to Contest #77
Another day of errands to be done. Jane had become very bored with the routine of playing an errand boy in her life. She was in the heat of summer in the middle of a city she longed to be free of. The traffic, noise, bustling of people; she rarely found the advantage that had once been dreamt by the families who moved to this once undeveloped land. She, herself, had moved here for the opportunity that was promised in the newspaper. She had grown up on a farm in the countryside of the Cotswolds. A place where so few families had ...
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