Scarecrow Stories: The Dog and her Toys

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There once was a little girl who had a dog, and everything in the world was at peace. They both came from the same family and loved each other very much. The girl’s favorite game was tag, and as such she chased the dog for as far as the eye could see. But the dog was peculiar. It, as most dogs do, had toys it loved to play with, but unlike most of her species she never wanted to bury them. The girl often mused at how odd this was, and at times would even try to bury the toys herself, if not for the dog’s sake then her own. She just wanted a normal dog, but her normal dog had been taken away from her and changed into something wholly different.
Now the dog wanted to switch places with the girl; the dog wanted to be seen as a person. The dog started to wear the girl’s clothes, sit in the girl’s chair, sleep in the girl’s bed. Soon, the dog had her chance to truly mirror the life it was living and seized it. Through the fires of the girl’s childhood, the dog was ready to give up the girl’s life in order to survive, but the dog and her toys made it out alive. Again all the girl wanted was to see her dog bury her toys, but the dog won out. It may have been a little burned, but the dog has all the power. Now the girl lives in a kennel she cannot escape, her life in the dog’s hands. Despite all of her struggling, the girl could play tag no more. What the dog hadn’t learned yet, is reversing one part of your life will only cause the whole thing to flip over, and everything about it quickly turns backwards. A girl should be a girl, a dog should be a dog. This is the lesson the dog would have to learn the hard way. Despite all her efforts to assert control over her upside-down life, it all backfired on the dog who wanted to be a girl, leaving her toys: the tin man, the carved ballerina, the straw doll, and the stuffed bunny, the task of burying her.
So remember children, while you may one day get the chance to choose your own fate or, if you’re lucky, twist it to your own desires, fighting fate has dire consequences and trying to reverse your lot in life will always leave you scarred.
Category:Fiction