Mr. B Runner: A Short Story

The fresh morning air was cool against my face. Father had been gone for a while now, he had been called by his work for some “serious business.” As my sister Aliah, and I played in the pond by our 2 story house, we heard a faint muttering of Father’s pick-up.

parents were drunk— which was all the time—up into the kitchen.”(Paulsen 24). When he had dogs, he forgot what his parents were like. Dogs changed everything.

In this short story, Henry Devereaux was being raised by two parents that always seemed to be unavailable. Both Henry's mother and father were English professors at a local university, but Henry’s father was also a well-known writer. As a child of two parents that seem to never be around Henry was lonely and wanted a companion. Henry wanted a dog, but his mother said a dog is not just given it has to be earned. As time went on Henry’s mother had given him a few things here and there that he needed to fix to better his chances of getting a dog, and because Henry wanted the dog so badly he was willing to fix it. Later on, in the story, Henry’s father went off alone to go and pick up a special dog for Henry.

asks him, “Is that how a father rules?” A family is not supposed to be one person ruling over

Shipley just laid there on his mat. Several months had passed since Trent had met the Australian Shepherd puppy. Trent and his mother were very suspicious about how Shipley was acting lately. Shipley hadn’t ate or drunk anything for 3 days, he yelped every time Trent touched him, and he vomited nearly every time he moved. Trent and his mother had finally decided to take him to the vet. “I don’t know if he ate anything.,” Trent said sadly to the vet “He just came in from outside one day and laid down. I didn’t think it was weird.,”. “Well...Let us take a sample and we will tell you the results of our scan.,” the vet said. 2 more days passed when the tests came back. Shipley still hadn’t ate anything but a piece of Trent’s donut. “I have some pretty bad news.,” the veterinarian announced “Shipley has Parvovirus.,” “There aren’t any available cures for the virus.,”. “What choices do we have?,”Trent’s mother asked. “The only options are to put him down or let him suffer and die.,” Trent cried at the decisions he had. for he wasn’t ready to let him go, but he didn’t want to let him suffer. “Put him down!,” Trent sadly agreed with his mother. Trent then kissed Shipley on his forehead and said” Goodbye

Christopher John Francis Boone, 15 year old young man that is diagnosed with an illness called Asperger syndrome ( Which is a form of autism that is a developmental disorder affecting ability to effectively socialize and communicate.) Christopher is very smart he knows all the countries and mostly prime numbers. “I know all the countries of the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7,057 (Haddon 1).” Although, Christopher loves dogs, but one day he came across his neighbor’s dog, Wellington the poodle, as he came on his knees he started to pet the dog and when he noticed that he was bleeding and there was a pitch fork near the dog. The neighbor, Mrs. Shears, came out of her house and noticed that Christopher had her dog’s in his arms with holes pierced in him, as she was worried that dog was now dead she called the police due to the scene and he was taking away because of his disorder he doesn’t like to be yelled at or touched so in his own defense he punched the police officer that touched him and was brought to a police station was withheld in a cell until he was released.

His phone pinged on the bedside table, indicating that he had a text, but he ignored it and flopped onto his immaculate white bed. The sounds of his parents arguing still traveled upstairs and the ringing of the slamming door haunted his ears. However, bad as the distraction was, there was nothing in the world that could have stopped him from falling asleep as soon as he hit the

This event took place on the weekend of Friday the thirteenth. This boy was sleeping over at a friends and learned to not show fear and stand up to animals. The boy had been amazed by the dog whisperer and ironically got in a similar situation, and put the dog whisperer’s skills to the test. Thanks to the dog whisperer this boy could outsmart the dog and was not injured. The dog whisperer is a man who goes to people who are having trouble keeping their dogs in control. He is a very experienced man and can manipulate dog’s minds into behaving and teaching the dogs how to act around people and other dogs. This helped the boy because the boy claimed the small space of the bathroom and frightened the dog.

“He’s within range, Heck. You better get him before he goes down the side street—Lord knows who’s around the corner. Go inside, Cal.” I said strenly. This dog was about to go mad any second. Calpurnia opened the screen and latched it whilst blocking the children.

She sat on the couch watching PBS and indulging in succulent grapes. Flickering across the screen, was an aardvark and his best friend, a bunny, named Buster; some may recognize this description of the amazing show called Arthur and you are the fortunate who have seen it. She was waiting for him to arrive home just like every other night. Her mom was in the kitchen and the smell of chocolate chip cookies wafted from the open kitchen. Where was he?, she wondered, growing impatient like all eight year olds do. Soon car lights broke the darkness of the night and the dog collar was heard running towards the door. He walked in. Her dad always worked late, but when he was finally home, she ran to the man dressed in business attire and was lifted

As the story starts the boy is seen as a kind gentle being that is very trusting in his elders. While the family begins to pack for their move out of their beloved house, the boy notices that the dog is

Perking up his ears the dog listened. “I didn’t mention it, but the other day, I had a close call, I started to cross the street and saw her coming towards me. Thinking, I had time to get to the other side; I pushed my cart off the curb. Would you believe she sped up, and roared by me in her shiny BMW, the wind dumped my cart over in the street? While I was picking up the cans and bottles, she came back, stopped and watched me. Someday, she’ll get what’s coming to her.” Sticking his head up, he barked. “Claude, you’re right, she doesn’t like us and right now she’s not one of my favorite people,” he said and smiled as the dog covered his head with his paws. “That’s okay, one day she’ll be good to me, if not it’s her loss.” Snickering, he patted him on the head, “What do we do today?” He asked, and Claude barked. “You want to take a drive. First, I need to do a few errands.” After struggling to get off the sofa, Claude went to the front door to wait. “Oh no, you can’t go, someone needs to watch the house,” he said, pointing his finger and watched the hound go out the back door. Going to the liquor cabinet,

“Yes I know we can’t let them take them, we’ll have them hide in the closet for now” replied my father

Christopher lives with his father as his mother had died two years ago. It was midnight, and Christopher was in his house. He looked out the window, and noticed the dog named Wellington seemed to be lying down on the ground. So he decided to go out and check on his neighbor Mrs. Spears’s dog, after all he liked dogs. But when he got to the dog, he could see a garden fork sticking out of the dog.

“Ryan take the dog out” said Ryan’s mom “Mom i have homework and I have to practice the guitar”. Let me tell you the story of why you should always take the dog out. Once there was a dog that ruled the world all because he was a ghost and he went around haunting people all because no one took him outside. SO he’d scare people all around the world. But the great four Deven, Nick, Mackie, and Mr.Rice wanted to put a stop to it. So they made up the smartest plan anyone ever thought of, they were going to walk the dog. Deven said that he was confused because why didn’t anyone think of this before. So when the dog ghost came to scare them they put a collar around his neck, leashed him and took him outside. Soon