The Bearer

The Bearer
(an imitation of William Olsen's “Gods and Goddesses”)

Balmy evening when we heard soles of tennis shoes slapping sidewalks while we sat on our tiny hill of a front lawn ignoring the pressure of brittle grass into our palms and watched stupidly as our friend’s only son with arms full of something limp and awkward approached us with heavy breathing and sweaty limbs and on the verge of dampening dead fur with teenage tears said that he was sorry even though there was nothing he could do but watch as the car ran over our last dog.