Outsider, Breck Young Dog Diaries This eclectic issue of The Mind’s Eye explores the tangible and symbolic bonds that people have with dogs. Submissions include poetry, fiction, science fiction, essay musings, artistic works, photojournalism and more formal academic research/papers. The loss of one’s beloved dog companion is so psychically traumatic that many dog owners …
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Photograph Credit: Dog Chapel, Jennifer Zoltanski A Eulogy for Amber — Beloved Banshee Girl It has been nearly one year since my dog Amber of 14 years died at home in my arms in the company of her three closest pals Toby, Remi, and the Professor. The event went as well as these things …
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Curled Up, Bailey Brissett Our Old Dog (Curled in Some New Position) His ears daydream. And he barks at poltergeists who shuffle upstairs. When he dies, my son wants another just like him. That’s a pretty good testament, I’d say. The cat will miss our dog, but like a wife will go on living …
Instinctual, Nicole Stearns Accomplice It still had its spots when I startled it from the underbrush. It still lived in simple declarative sentences. Where was its mother? Probably dead in the gauzy autumn light of a new hunting season. Or worse: listening nearby. I yelled for the dog, as the bleating turned to gurgle. Nothing …
