Written by Lisa Timpf / Artwork by Marcia Borell

This flood of stars

is not his usual river.

But Laika is a special case.

It falls to Cerberus

to lead her home

to greener fields.

Who will she await

at Rainbow Bridge?

Cerberus does not know.

Perhaps she will remember

a friendly face

from her distant past.

Cerby knocks.

Inside the spacecraft,

readouts flatline.

“Come, little one.”

Laika follows,

and does not look back.

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