Stories & Lit

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

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
By Dylan Brody

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.
By Kerry Quinn

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

By Kathy Ewing

Gypsy: A Boyhood’s Best Dog Pal

By Brodie Lowe

Poem: Enchanted

By Michele Britton Birkenshaw

Book Review: Dash

By The Bark

Poem: Imprint

By Paul Castonguay

How I Know All Dogs Have Souls

By Mitch Albom

How a Husky Taught Me Acceptance

By Crissi McDonald

Poem: An Old Dog Teaches My Dog to Swim

For Neptune and Nina, friends
By Elizabeth Johnston