The Trilogy Of Canine-centric Dog Stories [Kindle Edition]

Piso Mojado (Author)

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Product Description

Woof! Moo! Sigh! In a "canine-centric" story human beings vastly underestimate the sensibility and intelligence of a dog, and that is one of the surprises in all three of these stories, designed to delight the late elementary or junior high school student (but also written as subtle satire to interest the adult reader). All three of these stories have been previously separately published, and thus can be downloaded separately at Amazon. "The dog who sighed" and "The dog who cried, 'Woof'" are short stories, and "The dog that moo-ed" is a novella.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 152 KB
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B006M0UAK2
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled

More About the Author

I hope you have enjoyed my books, short stories, and children's stories.

I came to Amazon from the traditional publishing industry. Much of my correspondence to agents or publishers was never returned, despite my dutiful enclosure of the SASE (self-addressed-stamped-envelope). Several times I received rejection letters for books that weren't mine. I tell the story about receiving a yellowed novel by Samuel Clemens, and returning it to the publisher with the note, "This time the rumors of my death ARE true." The story is false, but the picture it provides is quite accurate.

I was traditionally trained as a writer. I had excellent teachers, some of whom warned me about keeping a safe distance from my own characters. Let me clearly delineate the difference between my characters and myself. I have in my adulthood tried to be a good person above all else, a blood donor, a clean-the-neighborhood volunteer, a volunteer toy-maker, a join-the-good-neighbors-building-the-house person, and so on. I could write about this life. You might even politely read some of it...

On the other hand, people like Captain Braveheart and Captain Heartbrave, Maddie from somewhere in the stars, Tom Paine the pain-in-the-bum, young Olga who leaves her Stalinist-era instructor to teach the savages in Great Britain (and me, at one time) about the great Russian playwright 'Shekspeare'...these people currently have more entertaining tales to tell than I do. It's fun to put ourselves in the shoes of over-the-top beings, if only for a brief time.

I can write a serious piece, if I feel some issue is of great importance and neglected. But often I spur exchanges by being lighter. I remember a gathering of women in the Netherlands reading "Upper and Middle Maroo" I had brought to a Dutch on-line chatroom and beginning to vent (probably for hours--I left, totally shocked that I'd hit a nerve) about all the ways their man loved their dog more than their woman. I love dogs. But do I believe the philosophy promoted in this story? Of course not. It made me laugh. I hope it makes others laugh.

That succinctly sums my admittedly shallow philosophy toward much of my work.