Kaustubh Dudhane’s Reviews > Grimdark Magazine Issue #43 > Status Update

Dogs barked in the distance—pain, loss, worry. Markan had one rule: never kill a dog. Well, that wasn’t quite true. He had many rules: never kill a child, don’t eat yellow snow, never trust a fart after Gourath’s stew, if you stab something and it moves stab it again. The list was actually quite an extensive one when he thought about it. But 'never kill a dog' took precedence above all others.