Wolf At The Door

There's this very realistic cheap statue of a dog outside the bathroom at Rebecca's and it startles me every time I turn to close the door, and every time I walk out.

Sudden barking scares me, and I distrust dogs I see on the street.

Once, I was playing badminton in my driveway, and the neighbor's dog ran up to me and tried to bite me. It bit a hole in my shorts and I whacked it without remorse.

When I used to walk the 15 minutes home from Cilantro at 4 A.M., the dogs would all be asleep. I would walk in the middle of the road, lest I wake the snarls chambered under the wheel wells.