Stories: The Pet Lady
The dog twitched and blinked, looking around ... "Jenny?"
Summary
A Bronx Community College student is out walking her dog one day in a New York park when she runs across a woman with a nearly irresistible sales pitch: Turn your pets into theris! Can a collection of mystical stones, essential oils, and a diet of generic kibble really uplift animals into intelligent companions?
Meta-Data
Author
BaxilDragon
Release date
Nov. 16, 2003
Word Count
2,900
Author Comments
I offered the contest behind this story on a lark, and was initially worried about whether I'd be able to make anything of the results. "The Pet Lady" earned a
BaMoTTuSto Reader's Choice award, though, so I miust have done something right.
Story Data
Major Characters
Dates of Story Events
- A "warm spring afternoon," probably April or May 1997
Locations
Significant Cameos and References
- Bronx Community College, Crotona Park and the Cross-Bronx Expressway all exist on Earth as well.
Trivia
- Baxil wrote this story based on the results of a contest∞ in which elements were submitted by readers, Mad Libs-style, and five were chosen randomly. Within a day, this sprang out of "generic brand dog food, transcendence, and an instructor while the power suddenly goes out in the Bronx." (1)∞
Read it at
http://www.tomorrowlands.org/nov2003b.html#11162003∞
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