Happily Married

He was a mongrel. She found him rummaging through her trash. She bathed him, fed him, and comforted him.

© 2011, Mark Rosenblum

(Reality Check)

They’d had enough of this seventh son of a seventh son nonsense. Bailing him out again, they agreed it was time to tell him he was adopted.

©2011, Susan Howe

A(mong Rel)atives

Among relatives and friends she could forget about her condition. But she knew staring strangers in the street would remind her soon enough.

© 2011, Simon Kewin

Leader of the Pack

For four years now they’d raced and Ron remained top dog. The younger Ian thought this was hisyear, but Ron still had the mongrel instinct.

©2011, Gayle Beveridge

Evolution on Show

They said it was a new breed. “It’s a mongrel,” replied the dog show judges. “Of course, the beginning of any new breed must be a mongrel.”

©2011, Gayle Beveridge