My Two Writing Teachers colleagues and I are hosting the 16th Annual March Slice of Life Story Challenge, in which teachers from around the world participate by posting a story per day.

This year, the SOLSC gives me a chance to record memories of our little dog, Indie, who died in January. I want to write these down while they are still fresh, so that my family and I can read them later and remember not only Indie, but little slices of life across the years.  

When Indie slept, he almost always made some kind of noise. He snored a tiny little doggy snore. He would “arf” every now and then, or make little almost barks. He would sometimes shake all over. And sometimes he paws would move in a running motion, out in front of him, like he was flying in his dreams. Every once in a while his tail would thump, thump and I knew he must be having a good dream.