Live stock!!!! Bring on the moo-cows!! (comment courtesy of an old Math professor I had when I was younger)
This story is interesting but short. I liked how you juxtaposed the ‘whelp’ with the only other options.. I can see why she would choose him. I love the way you introduce that and then expand on it, finishing with – ‘she swallowed her pride and consented’.
It does seem a little.. crushed.. space-wise, with not a lot written and a distracting run-on sentence but just on story itself.. Nice..
Susan Holder is terrific