#784 Roog- Philip K. Dick
Inventive, funny, and an idea copied many times since Roog’s 1951 publication. Boris is a guard standing outside his master’s house. The important stores of food are being kept outside in metal bins and it’s Boris’ job to make sure they are secure. Strange foreigners come by each week and pillage the food bins despite his best efforts to ward them off.
You think of Philip K. Dick and assume this is a sci-fi story and the Roogs are space aliens or something. But as it turns out, Boris is a dog, the Roogs are garbage men taking out the trash from the garbage bins. Boris barks up a storm each week when they come by annoying the neighbors. A good story is all about changing perspective.
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