“Puppy Love” was my first published piece of fiction; it originally appeared in Noneuclidean Cafe in fall 2005. Content warning for discussion of a man murdering a woman.
—I liked his tattoo.
—You left the bar with a strange man because you liked his tattoo?
—It was a coffee shop.
—Good lord, Diane, I don’t care what it was. Don’t you realize how stupid tha…