Brief reading by the author and LOTS of dog talk!
Dogs are welcome (as long as they are good doggies, because… you know…)
Prizes!
Doggie treats!
MaryAnn L. Miller the author of Falling into the Diaspora (Finishing Line Press 2023), Time is a Snake’s Tongue (CW Books 2023), Cures for Hysteria (FLP 2018) and Locus Mentis (PS Books 2012.) has been thrice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Most recently her painting “Woman with Migrants” appeared in Big Wing Review. Also, her art appears in New Feathers Anthology and Feral.
Her work has appeared in Still Water Review, Wild River Review, Presence Journal, Ovanque Siamo, Passager, International Review of African America Art, and the anthologies Illness as a Form of Existence, Welcome to the Resistance, Stained, and Convergence: Poetry on the Environmental Impact of War (Scarlet Tanager Press 2025). She has the rare condition Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis. It has slowed her down, but has not stopped her.
Kinder to Dogs is a Western Pennsylvania gothic tale, set during the beginning of the twenty-first century. A young boy named Perry, is attacked by his grandmother’s Rottweilers. He was so severely injured his throat had to be rebuilt using tissue from his intestines. He was left with an eternal limp in his right leg, and in his spirit. How can he heal from this assault, his mother’s subsequent abandonment, and his father’s sudden death? Is he strong enough to remain best friends with his friend Randall who returns as a veteran from Afghanistan suffering from a violent stress disorder, and as physically damaged as Perry? He turns to nature as a magical second mother, and his few friends to patch together a life for himself. He recognizes himself as a combination of ignorance and information. How can he become the kind of man he wants to be?