The Dogs

"The Dogs" is a short story by American author Jeffrey Thomas.
== Synopsis ==
A lonely man uses his library of esoteric books to create a device which allows him to peer into the Earth's future. What he sees is a planet ravaged by the arrival of enormous floating abominations who have wiped out the human race. 
As he looks farther ahead, he sees the descendants of Earth's dogs as they slowly evolve into something more intelligent, before devising a way to escape the planet as the Outsiders descend from the sky to render it completely uninhabitable.
== Characters ==
* March, a recently-divorced man with nothing to tie him to the world other than his beloved dog Snow.
== Publication History ==
"The Dogs" was published in the April Moon Books anthology The Dark Rites of Cthulhu in March 2014, and later appeared in the collection of Thomas's own works, The Endless Fall and Other Weird Fictions in February 2017.
Category:Mythos-Inspired Works
Category:Jeffrey Thomas works