"A Nice Story" by Todd McKie in Twelve Stories

How about a story in which a puppy doesn’t get hit by a truck? Instead, what if the puppy, who is adorable and belongs to a hard-working young sculptor, seems to have wandered off in a snowstorm and frozen to death, but what really has happened is that the plucky little fellow has traveled miles and miles in the blowing snow to reach a run-down shack at the edge of town ... Read story here.