Within The Best American Short Stories 1976

Terminal Procedure: A Short Story

Excerpt:

Much is not clear about the way the dogs died. Events on the periphery of the deaths, like points on undulating, outward-moving circles, recede into liquid uncertainty. The origins of the event are obscure, and its effects dwindle onward into indeterminacy. Causality cannot be established, and responsibility becomes a meaningless conceit, of no concern and no question

Yet at the center remains the event itself, and it is fully clear: the dogs died . . .