Lucas looked the picture of his brother and thought of the awesome brown labrador from across the street. He thought it would be funny to draw some doggy features on his brother. So he picked up the brown crayon and drew some downward-pointing triangles over the ears.
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I walked into the restroom and started brushing my teeth when all of a sudden my ears felt tingly. Then they throbbed and swollen. I stopped and gawked while I watched my ears flatten into wide, thin strips of flesh. Stretching, stretching... All at once they fell over and pointed downward, which caused me to spit out my toothpaste in shock.
The tingling moved to the top of my new ears and I noticed some tiny brown hairs poking up from them. Before long they were covered in fine brown fur. Then the tingling moved to the inside of my ears, and everything gradually seemed to get louder. I hear the clock ticking in the next room. I hear my brother giggling to himself upstairs. I could even hear our neighbors softly chatting way outside!
Dog ears. That was unquestionably what they were. I reached up and tugged one gently, then the other. Soft, flat, fuzzy--and somehow mine! I lifted them up with my hands, let go, and felt them flop back down where they were. I shook my head and listened to the sound of their flapping. It all looked so fake but it FELT so real!