title: Sorrowful Mysteries and Other Stories
author:  Normandi Ellis 
description: Normandi Ellis writes from the landscape of her Kentucky childhood. She received a B.A. in journalism from the University of Kentucky and an M.A. in English literature from the University of Colorado. Her stories have appeared in Agni Review, Southern Humanities Review, Appalachian Review and other journals. She currently teaches as a visiting literary artist in the schools.
zlib_text: **Folly**
  
  an Angel Paws short story
  
  Jordan Taylor
  
  * * *
  
  Copyright © 2013 by Jordan Taylor. All rights reserved. No part of this book
  may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or
  by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise,
  without the prior permission of the publisher.
  
  This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons or dogs, living
  or dead, is coincidental.
  
  No trees were harmed in the creation or publication of this work.
  
    
  
  Short Stuff Press
  
  * * *
  
    
  
  Folly
  
  “Folly!” Jessie gripped cold steel of the chain-link fence in both trembling
  hands. “Folly!” she shouted again, tears in her eyes.
  
  Her breath fogged before her as she stared into weedy neighboring yards and
  the deserted street beyond: left, right, fingers numb on icy metal.
  
  “ _Folly_ ,” she whispered, the word catching in her throat.
  
  Jessie closed her eyes. Where else could she search? She had been over all
  four rooms of the little house. She