Susan Harris Howell

It was an evening like any other. We had finished dinner and cleaned up. My husband and son had gone out - I don’t remember where. My daughter was in the living room on social media. I was in the kitchen where I was finishing my iced tea and preparing our dog’s evening assortment of three medications: one tablet for a skin allergy, one for an ear infection, and one for an ailing liver.

I squee