Dead Animals Are Everywhere

"Oh, honey," he cried on the phone, "It's terrible being alone. I'm feeling the blues, and I have some strange news. . . " He went on and on with a moan. "I went to the back yard one day, not too long after you'd been away. Do you know what I found everywhere on the ground? Can you guess what I'm going to say?" "No clue," I said. "Why don't you share?" "Dead animals are everywhere!" If he'd not shouted, I may have doubted, but then he said, "Baby, I swear." I was taken aback, so I said, "There are animals? And they are dead? What kind might they be? Tell me how many?" Just to think of it gave me some dread. Since it sounded so terrifying, I thought what a terrible thing. Had our yard become scary like the pet cemetery I had read of by novelist King? Were they poisoned? Were there rabbits too? In the back of my mind I just knew that his tale was too tall. I was not wrong at all. As it turned out, the number was two! For I called up my daughter who said she had gone there; what she saw instead of some big horror show was just her dad Joe with one snake and one bird that were dead! Written July 1, 2016 : True story with a bit of exaggeration making hubbie look wussy. But I'm not far off the mark!! This happened a long time ago when I had gone to a family reunion and left hubbie alone for a week!! Our daughter was newly married and went to the house to see all the "dead animals everywhere" For the Tell a Tall Tale Contest of Jesse Day