Courage The Cowardly — Dog Ramses |link|

The slab vanished into a waiting sandstorm.

Courage froze mid-step, his morning bone clattering to the porch. Dust swirled in a wind that didn't exist a second ago. The sky above the middle of nowhere had turned the color of old papyrus. courage the cowardly dog ramses

Here’s a short piece inspired by Courage the Cowardly Dog and the character (from the episode “King Ramses’ Curse” ): The slab stood where the mailbox should have been. The slab vanished into a waiting sandstorm

Courage looked at the house. Muriel was humming inside, unaware. Eustace was probably napping with his mask on. Neither of them had touched the slab. Neither of them remembered the traveling salesman who’d left it last Tuesday, carved with a curse in a language Courage could read perfectly—because fear, he’d long ago learned, is a universal translator. The sky above the middle of nowhere had

So Courage did what Courage always did.

Because courage isn't the absence of fear. It’s being terrified of a two-ton undead pharaoh and still returning the slab.