Dumdum (Featured story in the anthology    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 5890 words. Published on June 22, 2010. .
At first "the boy" finds the inbred calves he has to tend a burden and embarrassment. That is until the squatters at a country store try to pass the calves off to a stranger traveling through. "Never name a cow, boy," one of the men say. But it's too late. The boy has named and fallen in love with them, especially the cow he calls Dumdum.