Less than an hour after the dog broke loose from his chain, after he killed Joe’s chickens and after he hunkered down at the far end of Joe’s isolated, one-room cabin, Joe walked through the cabin’s open door with a repaired chain in his hand. The dog growled and Joe knelt down a few feet from him so their eyes could stare each other down.
Pressing his index finger on the wooden floor, Joe said, “GET YOUR“—and may the gentle reader forgive me for not repeating the unfortunate adjectives Joe chose to describe the dog’s—”ASS OVER HERE!” The dog correctly understood that there were only two choices: either submit or someone was going to die. The dog bowed his head, turned his growl into a whimper and received the chain.
Joe forgave the dog stoking his fur to draw him out of the shadow of transgression as Joe led him out of the cabin back to the dog house.
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Denise offers the prompt word “shadow” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Genesis 1:26 KJV – 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 
Nicely told story
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Thank you and blessings, Sadje!
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🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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Great looking rooster!
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That photo was taken in Key West where roosters wander freely about the area. Blessings, Dan!
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Great story. Really love it. And … this is it! “Joe forgave the dog”
Blessings.
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He did. He probably loved that dog more than the chickens. Blessings, Michael!
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That’s what dominion looks like! Good story.
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Thank you! Blessings, Mary!
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Good story, Frank – shame about the chickens though…
Beautiful bird, I like the photo from Key West!
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It was sad about the chickens. The story is 90% true. Blessings, Chris!
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I’m so glad the dog backed down and hope he can get more chickens.
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I think he got all the chickens eventually. Blessings, Mimi!
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As much as we may like chickens, glad that Joe was able to understand that his dog was not a human but was true to (his) nature
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I imagined that Joe loved that dog. Blessings, Clark!
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Nice ‘twist’ on the tale on losing Paradise. Clear & subtle, all at once!
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Thank you, Liz! Blessings to you!
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