Tales for my dog

by David Heidenstam

80 microfictions from humour to horror

• No, not - mostly - tales about dogs
• Just stories about human beings
• But any intelligent dog would understand
• And in the end you will too..

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“Probably my favorite book of the contest, in terms of heart and talent... / a hugely enjoyable read - intelligent and ironic and deftly crafted... / amusing, poetic, evocative, strange...”
SPR Book Award judges

I was very disappointed,
when I found out I’d been lying to myself.

Everybody knew about the blue jacket.
You put it on, and it told you what you wanted to know.

There was a bit of a discussion about whether the Queen
would be happy to do it in a helicopter or not.

I had a misunderstanding the other day. I thought I was
a pastry cook, but then realised I was Chief of Police.

He was a miser,
and so didn’t buy any clothes.

The singer was singing about love, death,
hope, despair.

There were two of them. One fat, one thin. One old, one
young. One rich, one poor. One greedy, one needy.

He wasn’t sure, but they looked like bad guys,
so he shot them anyway.

A long time ago – before even your father was born – there was
a great debate among the animals, over who should rule the land.

Lights in cities at night, she thought. The one
beautiful thing we’ve made. The one beautiful thing.

He folded the dragon carefully, studying
how to do it from the book he had.

It was in the dark before dawn that he saw
the woman walking across the water.

The house was at the end of the world,
where the land ended and the water began.

Almost every night, when he lay down to sleep,
the old man dreamed of the moon.

The dog
came into the pastry shop.....

TALES FOR MY DOG
80 microfictions from humour to horror

“They are wonderful stories: remind me of shorter versions of Aesop's Fables or the Persian stories of Mullah Nasreddin.”
Former editor of a long-established UK literary journal

(Who offered this spontaneously - and asked to be anonymous. Because he/she refuses all approaches for quotes - and didn’t want to upset everyone who’d been turned down!)

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“From hauntingly beautiful to dark and foreboding...”
Review by BookViral

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“Brief, poignant, brilliant.”
Review posted on Amazon

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“The cover grabs and the content works... This set [of stories] are really worth reading.”
Peter Finch, UK poet, author, critic

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“..highly original.. [The] writing is extraordinary.. I was staggered by some of the lines...”
Philippa Donovan, founder of SmartQuill.

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From members of the reading public:

“really fun to read” (USA)
“some of it reminds me of the very clever Czech and Russian writers I studied” (UK)
“subtle and intelligent stories” (Germany)
“a work of high imagination” (France)
“sheer masterclass” (India)
“I love it” (Serbia)

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And from the author:

“Some of these stories will seem very politically incorrect, if the reader is tone deaf to irony or satire! For example, the monologue in which a clearly old-fashioned speaker suggests that it may be easier to keep a "mistress" than a dog, because you don't have to walk her every day... Please do NOT read if you think that Swift was being serious in his "Modest Proposal"...

“Also not recommended for: Christians; optimists; those hoping for nice stories about dogs...”

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Paperback, 132pp: ISBN 978-0-9955934-0-4
Kindle ebook: ISBN 978-0-9955934-1-1
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