So here’s a real chestnut. A rarely-seen story that I wrote an early draft of in college, when the title was, I believe, “A Dog’s Life.” It was revised and published as “The Poodle Next Door” in the 1999 anthology Tails from the Pet Shop, edited by Tina Jens for Twilight Tales.
If I was a rock band, this would definitely be a rarity B-side from “the early years.”
You can read the story here.
Happy Halloween.
Bill B.