{"sf1_id":1436958,"sf2_id":"RnoQWV6e","title":"Lonely Dinner (Otherwise Untitled)","author":"Moriar","words":121,"posted_at":"2019-04-11T22:54:00.000Z","tags":["Grief","Wolf","pizza"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1436958-lonely-dinner-otherwise-untitled","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/RnoQWV6e","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/d5/e9/d5e90b2c-93e0-4c9a-8094-653209430294","description":"#120 of Short Stories\n\nA wolf considers his meal options.","content":"~\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; The previous eight months had been hard on the wolf. At a tempo he'd never prepared for he managed to bury a father and mourn over his mother's ashes. The weight and absences of it all were creeping into his realization, standing in a kitchen as alone as he felt.  \n~\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Modestly helpful, the oven rang out with a wobbling chime to inform him that the preheat cycle was completed. Opening the freezer, Gerald stared into the hazy mist of cold and ice.  \n~\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; He placed a frozen pizza on the counter, his gaze never dropping from the icebox.  \n~\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \"There's no one left to judge me.\"  \n~\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; He set a second frozen pizza box on top of the first.  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Short Stories","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1428479-offers-considered-otherwise-untitled.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1436959-pages-of-crime-otherwise-untitled.json"}}