The Dog
Stories, as everyone knows, have a way of becoming true—and if there’s one story dogs know how to tell, it’s this one.

If the dog is chasing the dog, how many dogs are there?
Most would say two. Some would say at least two, but who knows how many more are watching? A few, smugly, would answer only one. And they would be wrong.
Because if the dog most dogs love to chase the most is, indeed, themselves, in a way, every dog chasing its tail is the same dog. Not just a dog, mind, but the Dog. The Ur-Dog. The Good Boy. Or Girl. Not that it matters, because tails don’t care about such things.