Stories & Lit | The Bark

Musings on the world's oldest friendship in personal essays, memoirs, fiction, classics and, of course, humor.

For Dogs Fun is the X-Factor

From Making Dogs Happy

By Melissa Starling, PhD, Paul McGreevy, PhD, MRCVS

Asta Encounters the Divine in Big Laurel Creek

Buster

Poem: Joint Portrait

By Jane Marla Robbins

At The End Of Four Leashes

By Ellie Hansen

My Friend’s Dog

(for Lili and Marlene)

By Barbara Shomaker

Dog Clearing up a Mystery

In Their Voices

By Kate Brackett

Settling

In Their Voices

By Mary Jane Seibert

Can I Keep Them?

In Their Voices

By Sante Matteo

A Dog on the Beat

Commemorating Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Centenary Birthday

The Affliction

By Lesley Gibson

Faster Than My Paws Can Take Me

In Their Voices

By Jessica Stone

Becoming a Dog Person

By Rachel Lyons

My Dog Is My Boyfriend?!

Musings on a close relationship.

Once More to the Lake

By Elizabeth Berg

Journey

In Their Voices

By Doris Westberg

If Only We Could Love So Loudly

By Maggie Pahos

Roxie and Verna

Gypsy: A Boyhood’s Best Dog Pal

Poem: Enchanted

By Michele Britton Birkenshaw

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