Creative Writing Challenge 2.1 - Tony's List - Starving Charlie
“As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again!”
Charlie lay on the floor with a dog-eared copy of Gone With the Wind, devouring the impassioned cry of the heroine. Literally. He had grown restless waiting for his human to return with the bone he expected for dinner, so he began to explore other options.
The texture of the pages wasn’t enough to take the edge off his hunger, and the content was a bit dry. This was driving him absolutely bananas. He needed a proper snack, and that might be found in the kitchen.
Charlie sniffed at the trash. Empty Coke bottles were covering up the good stuff, but he could tell there would be more if he dug deeper. He nudged the bin with his nose until it toppled and a container rolled away.
It didn’t smell very good. Some sort of dairy-based product had been sitting at the bottom of the bag for days. Maybe yogurt? He didn’t bother trying to read the label, it was all Greek to him. Greek, and stale. No luck with the trash then.
Something on the counter? The golden retriever couldn’t jump all the way up, but he got his front two paws resting on the edge and took a look around. There was a bowl of those hard round orange things that the humans sometimes put in their mouths, but that wasn’t food. He took a swipe at the bottle sitting next to the bowl, and it fell to the floor with a crash.
A tomato-red stain spread across the tile when the wine bottle broke. Charlie’s tail began to wag in anticipation. It might not be the white wine he preferred, but it was something, and it would keep him warm inside while he waited for Tony to return with the real food.
Taking care to avoid shards of glass, Charlie licked the mess from the floor before heading outside for a nice, long nap.
Written for Task #1 of the Second Creative Writing Challenge run by @steemfluencer!
When I was planning the task, this type of stories was in my mind all the time. Nicely written indeed!
I'm glad you like it, I'm already looking forward to round 2!
This one's so cute! It reminds me of the time my dog had the nerve to eat an entire batch of chocolate chip cookies off the counter while I was in the house playing the piano! The nerve!
Thank you!
Poor dog thinks he is totally not guilty. Just hungry!
Good choice of quotes here! Your story led off with it, mine finished with it :) Clever story and a lot of tiny little twists (like, I thought you 'messed up' on the red wine, but you mentioned the white wine right after). Nicely done!
Thank you, it was fun to write too!
Nice idea to take the angle from the dog's point of view! I can imagine this is exactly what goes through a dog's mind when looking for food :)
The mess is totally just an unfortunate coincidence.
Wow! that is very well written , have to cudgel my brain to have some motivation to pen down something fictitious:)
Thank you!
I'll look forward to reading what you come up with.
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I loved that you made the story from the dog's point of view (: Like @negativer I thought you had messed up with the red wine and then read white wine in the next line :) It was fun to read and very creative, good job!
Thank you!