Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Chapter 13: Derby Dies — The Redacted Version

Wait ... what was I thinking? I could never show that to Dr. Marcy. What would she think of me? 

Killing my dog? She’ll think I’m a psycho. That I have some serious issues.

I don’t want her to think I'm a psycho. I don't want her to think I have some serious issues. She’d have me institutionalized or something. Put me on tranquilizers. I’d end up like that Big Chief guy in One Flew Over theCuckoo’s Nest.

No, I need something else. Something more reasonable. Something more sane. I scribble out the entire passage. Crumple the paper up. Toss it at the trashcan.

Instead, I write:

One night it was cold and snowing. Derby didn’t get in bed with me like he usually did. I got out of bed and looked all through the house, but I couldn’t find him. I called his name.

Derby!

Derby!

Here boy! 

He didn’t come.

The next morning, Dad decided that Derby must have gotten out. He must have run away.

I never saw him again.











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