Nightbitch

When Nightbitch’s husband returns home, she tells him about the exciting week she has had, going to “Book Babies” and playing in the park with her son. Her husband notices how “her whole aura had changed” and how happy she seems (124). Nightbitch and her husband joke about how annoying their cat is, and how they want to kick her like a football.

On the Sunday of that weekend, Nightbitch’s son carries a raw steak in his mouth into the living room and drops it at the feet of his father. Inadvertently, he introduces him to the fact that Nightbitch and he have been playing “doggy games.” Later that evening, Nightbitch and her husband argue, with him saying: “I just think the dog stuff needs to stop” (127).

The next night, Nightbitch discusses the frustrations of putting her son to sleep, which is the one thing above all else that she cannot stand, and which her husband never helps her with. Her son waking and wanting to suck on his pacifier is one of the key problems she must contend with. However, Nightbitch is able to get her son to abandon the dummy by playing another “doggy game” with him, where he sleeps in a kennel in the corner of their bedroom.