A Dog's Life

First published 2008

Reprinted 2010

Based on a true story...

He had been sitting in the yard watching the back door for so long that nothing else existed. There was just the heat of the sun, blue sky above and red scratchy earth against his tummy. And the back door. The other life, the one before coming here - the warm press of other puppies, the teat in his mouth - had taken on the vague outline of a dream.....