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cussedness
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| Posted 3/23/2007 9:48 PM (GMT -4) |   | I may not be around much for a few days. My dog died. Yes, he was just a dog. But he was 11 years old and for the past seven since my daughter moved out to go to college, he was my only companion.
She named him Leviathan and I shortened it to Levy. He was an alcoholic that could open nearly any bottle he came across. I never had to lock the booze up from the kids, just from the dog.
He was also an accomplished thief. He always had a stash somewhere of things he had stolen.
Levy rarely barked or growled. The noises he usually made sounded like a baby crying. People used to tease me that he was trying to say "mama."
He was a mutt. His daddy was dachshund and pekingnese. His mama was a chihuahua and when we first got him he could curl up inside Sovay's shoe and sleep there.
Sovay had a fear of dogs. She had been utterly fearless until she was attacked by a pack of ferals who came down out of the Angeleus Crest and attacked her. They were hungry and she was food. I had to give up the rottweiler I owned because after the attack, Sovay could no longer cope with having a dog around.
three years later I got Levy. I had read about how people with phobias could get over them by being exposed to the object they feared. So I reasoned that a dog that small would help her get over her fear of dogs.
One day when we had only had Levy a few weeks, I heard her shrieking and Levy snarling, so I rushed into her room. They were faced off across the room from each other with the object of contention, a stuffed toy, laying in the floor between them. I told Sovay that if she could not deal with it, we would give Levy up. Her reply (she was 13) was "It's just sibling rivalry, Mom."
Janrae Frank
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Once there were three brothers, Brandrahoon the vampire, Isranon called the Dawnhand, speaker to spirits, and Waejonan the Accursed, first of sa’necari. Isranon defied his brothers and was destroyed, his descendants forced into the darkness.
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cussedness
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| Posted 3/24/2007 1:39 AM (GMT -4) | | My close friend of ten years, Natalie Daniels, was visiting me at the time of Levy's death. As often happens with writers, when you are at the tail end of a royalty period there is very little money left. My Dutch translator, Mark Prins, had come onto IM with me and insisted upon pay paling me money to take Levy to the vet. I told Mark that all I needed was cab fare. The rest could go on my credit card. He deliberately put some extra 0's onto the amount because he is a kind and generous soul even though his translations had not yet earned out. I asked Natalie to check on Levy because he had retreated into the bathroom. Just as the money came through (Euros count for more than dollars at the moment), Natalie said "He's gone."
Mark insisted that I put the money he had sent to good use in paying contributors to my current anthology and he is writing a Eulogy to Levy to be included at the opening to the anthology I am doing. Mark has written a lovely eulogy. He shared parts of it with me today. There are currently close to thirty condolences posted from various friends in the industry on my several blogs. All of them had delighted over the years in hearing about Levy's adventures. They included writers, agents, editors, and fans.
Levy was a victim of the tainted dog food produced by Menu Foods.
The apartment seems so empty without him.
Natalie stayed with me for nearly five hours and she took care of all the details concerning Levy.
Bless her.
Janrae Frank
I have no skeletons in my closet, they are all hanging from the yardarm.
Once there were three brothers, Brandrahoon the vampire, Isranon called the Dawnhand, speaker to spirits, and Waejonan the Accursed, first of sa’necari. Isranon defied his brothers and was destroyed, his descendants forced into the darkness.
Blood Rites
www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook29989.htm
website
www.janraefrank.com
Darkzone
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