Halls of the Dark Muse

I suddenly hear this outburst of noise which sounded almost like a turkey or a chicken, and some scuffling in the front yard, and there are people who have chickens around here so at first I think maybe a chicken had wandered into the yard and one of the cats went after it.

I get up to walk to the front door to find out what was going on and at first all I see was this little dog on the porch and well I know the dog was not the one making the bird like noises, and I can still hear ...