I stood on the small peninsula overlooking the tidal flats, the same crop of land where I saluted her in the wind and raced her sunset home. This time I paused with another Labrador, her heir, to watch the cars and trucks on the freeway draw concrete between the ocean and wetlands. A rustle in […]
The rocks were jumping from their beds to stub my bare toes, inspiring me to drop several ineffective f-bombs on their vindictive semi-porous surfaces, when I saw him. He was crawling on his hands and knees, each lunge more careful than the last, across the palm-sized stones leading to the ocean. An empty wheelchair was […]