The novella: Dogs are reported for their constant barking...and so begins one of the strangest stories you will ever read. Audrey Ackerman, sent to visit the dogs at a 17th-century coach house, is unsettled by paranormal sightings. Stella Bridgeport ? manager at The Animal Welfare Union ? communicates with Audrey via emails. And those Stella receives are as startling as they are incredible: descriptions of extraordinary events concerning a science fiction writer's journal; giant swans; bizarre android receptionist; a ghost dog. Insanity or fantasy? Fact or fiction? The only given is, it all starts and ends with two dogs at The One Dog Inn....

and other stories: 12 short stories with aspects of the macabre, the surreal, or the strangeness of magical realism to entertain and delight you.