It's Hard Being A Single Parent

So I wrote this over a month ago and found it in my recycle bin tonight. No idea how it ended up in there, I only get rid of things I'm certain I've already posted. But I checked and I hadn't so here it is. In response to this :T Pretend you're reading this at the end of August!


The yellow pages landed heavily on the desk, a damp finger immediately flipping pages. Ray sat in his chair with a sigh. He didn’t have a first clue where to begin looking but he grappled with his lamp anyway, angling it at the open book so the light bounced off the lettering in bright tiny glares. Housing a pony was hard enough but an animal that practically defied logic was beyond him. His only hope was that he’d find a place he could store them both until Asher…

Ray squinted at the printed adverts. The vampire didn’t change his mind lightly but Ray wasn’t ready to give up just yet. On him or the sets of hooves currently eating up his backyard. With another sigh he flipped to a new page in his notebook and picked up a pen, dividing it up into two columns that he labelled P and Z.

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