They Told Me I Could Only Take One Dog Home Until I Saw What Happened When They Tried to Separate Them

it in words and did not need to.

Beans stretched in the afternoon light and rested his chin on her shoe.

She put down the watering can and sat beside him on the garden steps.

Outside the fence, the neighborhood went about its ordinary afternoon, and inside it, two lives that had not been planned continued their quiet and necessary arrangement.