The Bitch

Literary Hub shares an excerpt from a story titled "The Bitch," in which a woman named Damaris cares for her dog. After a bath the dog clearly resents, a violent storm hits their coastal shack, and the next morning Damaris finds her bras shredded—though the dog is unharmed. Later, the dog bolts into the jungle with other dogs, and Damaris searches desperately through the dark, but the flashlight begins to dim and she returns weeping, having found no trace. The excerpt ends with her search unresolved.

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