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Stories & Lit

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

Photograph by Gene Hyde

Asta Encounters the Divine in Big Laurel Creek

By Gene Hyde

Buster

By Tom Brenner

Poem: Joint Portrait

By Jane Marla Robbins
Photo by Ellie Hansen

At The End Of Four Leashes

By Ellie Hansen
Photo by Silvana Carlos on Unsplash

My Friend’s Dog

(for Lili and Marlene)
By Barbara Shomaker
Photograph courtesy of Kate Brackett

Dog Clearing up a Mystery

In Their Voices
By Kate Brackett

Settling

In Their Voices
By Mary Jane Seibert
Heather Miller/Unsplash

Can I Keep Them?

In Their Voices
By Sante Matteo
 “Cosmo the MU Dog” with calligraphy by Sanje Elliott, dog portrait by Don Ed Hardy. Scroll mounting with hand-dyed indigo silk by Liza Dalby.

A Dog on the Beat

Commemorating Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Centenary Birthday
By Dylan Brody
Photo by MagMos

The Affliction

By Lesley Gibson
Courtesy of Jessica Stone

Faster Than My Paws Can Take Me

In Their Voices
By Jessica Stone
Illustration by beastfromeast

Becoming a Dog Person

By Rachel Lyons
Photographs courtesy of Kerry Quinn

My Dog Is My Boyfriend?!

Musings on a close relationship.
By Kerry Quinn
PHOTOGRAPHY BY TERESA CRAWFORD

Once More to the Lake

By Elizabeth Berg
Deb Bishop Photography

Journey

In Their Voices
By Doris Westberg
Photographs courtesy of the author

If Only We Could Love So Loudly

By Maggie Pahos
Photo by vintagecat (https://flic.kr/p/9idZLm)

Roxie and Verna

By Kathy Ewing
Brothers Cody, age 7 (top), and Brodie, age 9 (middle), with Gypsy, May 1995.

Gypsy: A Boyhood’s Best Dog Pal

By Brodie Lowe
Photo by Krystian Bęben from Pexels

Poem: Enchanted

By Michele Britton Birkenshaw

Book Review: Dash

By The Bark Editors
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