By B. J. Hollars
ISBN-10: 0803284918
ISBN-13: 9780803284913
What's it that canines have performed to earn the identify of “man’s top friend”? And extra largely, how have all of our hairy, feathered, and four-legged brethren controlled to counterpoint our lives? Why will we love them? What do we study from them? And why is it so tricky to assert goodbye? sign up for B.J. Hollars as he makes an attempt to discover out—beginning with an historical puppy cemetery in Ashkelon, Israel, and relocating to the current day.
Hollars’s firsthand reviews recount various tales: the onerous lifestyles of a look after officer, a woman’s relentless try and came across a senior-dog adoption facility, a family’s fight to create a one of a kind orthotic for its bulldog, and the actual bond among a blind girl and her Seeing Eye puppy. The publication culminates with Hollars’s personal cross-country trip to Hartsdale puppy Cemetery—the country’s biggest and oldest puppy cemetery—to start the long-overdue means of laying his personal youth puppy to rest.
Through those tales, Hollars unearths a lot approximately our pets yet much more concerning the people who proportion their lives, offering a much-needed reminder that the realm will be a greater position if we took a couple of cues from man’s top acquaintances
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Freddy was smiling, a feral smile that promised hurt. "I'll be damned," he told Dean, "you're just full of fuckin' surprises, man. I was only kiddin' you about bonin' Scarface and here you were about to let her gobble your rod. " The bell clanged on, ignoring the hush of the tide. Somewhere far out to sea, a ship's horn sounded. The ground around the car was sandy, a thin layer scattered above concrete. Pieces of broken glass gleamed in the half-light from the streetlamps that peered between the canopies of box elder and spruce.
Kealan also edited the anthologies: TAVERNS OF THE DEAD (starred review, Publishers Weekly), BRIMSTONE TURNPIKE, QUIETLY NOW (International Horror Guild Award Nominee, 2004), the charity anthology TALES FROM THE GOREZONE and NIGHT VISIONS 12 (starred review, Publishers Weekly, British Fantasy Award & International Horror Guild Award nominee). A movie based on his short story "Peekers", directed by Mark Steensland screened at a variety of international film festivals and won a number of awards. You can view the film at the author's website.
Dean wanted to be sick, but figured instead to drive, to seek distractions and end this goddamn night as soon as possible. He could live with the whispers, the speculation, and the gossip forever, but he needed to end the subject of them sooner rather than later. " she asked when he gunned the engine to life and set the car rolling. He kept his eyes on the street. Dogs were fleeting shadows beneath streetlights; a plastic bag fluttered like a trapped dove on a rusted railing. A basketball smacked the pavement beyond a fenced in court.
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