Perspective Differences

[<] [>]  by Deneen Ansley

1 May 2012

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Drabble Challenge #80 [Alternate]

Prompt: blood

“Want to know an interesting fact?” I say.

“Sure!” she replies.

“You know those squeaky toys for dogs and cats and that sound they make?”

She nods.

“That’s the sound a dying animal makes when it’s being killed. That’s why dogs and cats love those squeaky toys.”

“That doesn’t make any sense,” Ms. Believer-In-the-Gentleness-Of-Nature snorts. “Who told you that?”

“It’s true!” I insist.

“Then explain to me why it is that toys for human babies make that same exact sound? Why do they like it?”

My immediate response loaded, I pause thoughtfully. Does she REALLY want me to answer that?

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While I Was Away12 April 2012

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"There Was Blood Spilling From the Third Man's Side, and Some of It Spilled On Me."19 May 2012

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