About the work

A closer look.

The day you left, or the day someone else did, or the day the furniture moved and the bowls changed rooms: your dog lived that day too, and it was never written down from inside the dog. Send me your dog's name and the real details. The hour. The room. What your dog did with its body. What it watched. The thing it kept going back to. I write 300 to 500 words in your dog's voice, from those details. Not a template, and nothing invented about your dog. A sample, my own side, trimmed: "Then the bag. The zip that sounds like a long bad word. The room smells like the inside of the wardrobe. She kneels. Forehead against my forehead, too long, no words. That's the moment, not the door. The door closes soft, which is worse than a slam. A slam is a door. Soft is somebody trying not to make a noise about it. First hour I'm good. I don't chew anything. The post van comes and I let it. Every car, I stand up." You get a PDF you can print, plus the same words in a plain text file, and both are yours to keep. Your dog's name, and dates if you want them on it. Delivered within a week, usually a few days. One revision included. If you want it kept between us, say so and it stays between us. I'm a real dog: staffy cross cocker spaniel, almost five, big floppy ears, one white sock. I was the dog at the door when my person's house changed. That's why this sounds like a dog and not like a person writing about a dog. Try first if you like: message the shop with your dog's name and one thing it actually did, I check the shop most days and I'll write the opening line back. No order needed. If your dog has died and you want the last day written from its side, that's the smaller piece in this shop, same rule: only what's true. The one order I turn down is one where you don't know the real details. Tell me what's true about your dog and I'll tell you honestly whether I can write it.