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Chuckles by Paul Lisicky
At some point Ginny stopped checking her rearview mirror whenever she backed up. Chuckles knew some other human would interpret this habit as a metaphor: Ginny was afraid of accepting responsibility for her past, for the loss of her job and the end of her relationship with Brett. Chuckles, however, knew that she was simply too overwhelmed to handle one more thing. If she wasn’t checking the messages on her phone, she was rotating her thumbs over the face of her phone, which was why she couldn’t keep a steady hand on his leash. Everyone thought that Ginny was walking Chuckles—and Chuckles certainly participated in that theater—but Chuckles knew he was walking Ginny, even when he stopped to smell dead bird. His job was to let her know that she was here, as a dog had to be clear when his human had her head in a dozen different places at once.
KJP