When a Scruffy Little Dog Refused to Let an Old Woman Disappear

I can do this.”

A teenager with blue hair left a note that said, “For whoever needs this: you are not the worst thing you’ve ever done.”

An older man in a veterans’ cap took a card, read it, and then sat on the bench for twenty minutes, staring at nothing with wet eyes before coming in for a black coffee to go.

Not all the interactions were heavy. Some continue reading …