It’s My Chair Now
By Trish Hubschman
July 2024

Henry

Here’s the scoop, Mom bought a new recliner. It’s got massage, heat and It’s super soft. It’s great. Dad put it in her computer room. She wants to be able to sit in comfort while listening to books and music. She loves it, so do I. Hee hee.

It took me a few days to discover the chair was there, but when I did and jumped into it, it was pure luxury. I deserve that. Mom and Dad didn’t realize it right away that I was skulking to my new chair, but they found out soon enough. It happened one evening. The three of us were in the living room. I was jumping back and forth from sofa to loveseat to chair. I was sleepy and restless at the same time. I couldn’t get comfortable. When the folks were deep in conversation about something and their heads were turned, I sneaked out of the living room and went into Mom’s computer room and jumped onto my new recliner. Yes, now I could settle down and snooze.

I heard Mom ask Dad, “Where’s Henry?” He didn’t reply. I guess he didn’t know where I was. Hee hee. “I bet he’s in my room in my new chair,” Mom said. I think she was getting frantic.

Next thing I knew, they both were in Mom’s computer room. Dad was roaring with laughter. “Yes, that’s where he is,” Dad said.

Mom darted over to me. “Get out of my chair, Henry,” she demanded.

Nope, I would not. Finders’ keepers. Squatter’s rights. Whatever you want to call it. I wasn’t budging.

She tried again. “Please get off my chair?” she asked.

Well, she asked in a nicer way, more polite, but still no way. I didn’t move.

She got more stern. “Get off my chair now.”

No deal.

She turned to Dad. He couldn’t stop laughing. “Do something,” she demanded. “He listens to you.”

“He does not,” Dad protested. “He’s Henry. He does what he wants to do.”

I’m glad the folks realize that. I’m proud of it. Mom had steam coming out of her ears.

Dad took a deep breath, Probably to calm his laughter down. “Get off the chair, boy . Come on.” He gestured for me to do that. I jumped off, but I wasn’t happy about it. Mom scooted into the chair, put the foot rest up and hit a button to turn on the massage. I was still in the room, staring at her. She looked at me too.

“Give me half an hour, Henry. You can have the chair back at 7:30.”

At twenty past the hour, Mom got out of the chair to go into the master bedroom to do something. I saw my chance. I jumped back up into my chair, settled down and closed my eyes. Mom came back into her computer room a few minutes later.

“Henry, you’re in my chair,” she screeched. “This dog can tell time too.”

That I can. I’m Wonder Dog. This is my chair now.

Trish Hubschman is the author of the Tracy Gayle mystery series: Tidalwave, Stiff Competition, Ratings Game, Uneasy Tides, and Gayle’s Tales.
Trish is a graduate of Long Island University’s Southampton Campus and has a Bachelor’s degree in English. She is deaf-blind and lives in South Carolina with her husband, Author Kevin Hubschman, and their dog, Henry.

Trish is a sponsoring member of Patty’s Worlds. See more on Trish’s latest book below.
Gayle’s Tales: Tracy Gayle Mysteries
by Trish Hubschman
Copyright December 23, 2022
The book is for sale from Smashwords (e-book only) and from Amazon in e-book ($3.99), paperback ($8.50), and hardcover ($16.50).
175 pages in print.

Full details of this book and Trish’s four Tracy Gayle mystery novels are on her website here.

Synopsis:

Gayle’s Tales is a collection of Tracy Gayle mystery short stories.

Everyone’s favorite couple, Tracy and Danny, are still going strong, romantically and professionally, rocking and rolling and solving crimes.

Tracy has to locate missing persons who vanished decades earlier.

She gets tangled in murder investigations she hadn’t anticipated.

She digs into a coal mining town that’s been uninhabited for 40 years and discovers secrets and skeletons.

In the end, she brings long–lost family members and friends back into each other’s arms and lives.

Through all this, she and Danny are planning their wedding extravaganza at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.

Tracy narrates her own adventures in these tales, as she does in the books.

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