“Pick up just about any novel and you’ll find a throwaway reference to a dog, barking in the distance,” says Rosecrans Baldwin, in an article for Slate – http://www.slate.com/id/2256007/pagenum/all/

In the article, he offers many examples of these irritating off-screen literary canines.

Your challenge is to use either form discussed – “Somewhere a dog barked” or “A dog barked in the distance” – in a ficly.

Genre, tone, etc. are all your choice.