“A Dog In Space”

written by Kyle Brady, edited by Taylor Nelson
copyright © 2010 Intuitive Industries LLC
do not reprint, publish, or distribute in other locations, in whole or in part, without permission
also available in PDF format

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Once, when I was a young boy, I found a dog floating in the emptiness of space. He was dead, but he was still a dog.

I brought him back to life with my shipboard defibrillator, but, alas, he was only a shell of what he had been – angry instead of happy, green fur instead of brown, and marshmallows instead of teeth.

After days of attempting to bring him back to a non-marshmallow-zombie existence, I put him out the airlock as we passed a star at relatively close range.

My parents punished me for murdering my grandma.

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written by Kyle Brady, edited by Taylor Nelson
copyright © 2010 Intuitive Industries LLC
do not reprint, publish, or distribute in other locations, in whole or in part, without permission
also available in PDF format