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A dog moves through a dozen lives.

Each story follows a different person in a different place. A woman at a gas station at two in the morning. A ten-year-old boy with a vacant house porch and a package of bologna. A man who throws a boot and then puts out meatloaf as an apology. A waitress who watches someone leave a twenty on a cup of coffee she never drank.

The dog stays briefly. It doesn't fix anything. It doesn't perform. It just shows up, breathes in the same room, and moves on.

What it leaves behind is the story.

Found is a series of twelve connected short stories about the people a single animal passes through on its way somewhere else. Each one stands alone. Together they build something quiet and cumulative that's hard to put down once it starts adding up.

These are stories about parking lots and porches and kitchen counters. About the drying rack that holds dishes for one. About what the silence sounds like after something warm was in the room and isn't anymore.

No genre hooks. No twists. Just people carrying things they haven't looked at in a while, and a dog that doesn't ask them to but somehow makes the looking possible.