Adam used a garden shovel to dig the hole. Between the sunflowers, Uncle Freddy insisted Lola be shaded from the sun. They wrapped the cat in a towel, and while he may have been playing gravedigger to get a leg up in his uncle’s will, Adam still shed a tear.

Stephanie Peterson is a college student from Northwest Indiana. Majoring in Political Science and minoring in Creative Writing and Environmental Science, Stephanie enjoys writing to the music of the seventies and the snoring of her German Shepherd.