Stories & Lit | The Bark

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

Buster

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

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.

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

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

Gypsy: A Boyhood’s Best Dog Pal

Photo by Krystian Bęben from Pexels

Poem: Enchanted

By Michele Britton Birkenshaw

Book Review: Dash

By The Bark Editors

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