People Want You To Be Ordinary.

Stalking The Angel [joe]"i Could Off Anybody In This Place Five Times Over." [elvis]"could You Off Someone And Get Away With You Here?" [joe]head Shake. "i'm Too Good Even For Me.

I Began To Encounter Real-life Stories Of Dogs Protecting Their Wounded Or Dying Or Dead Handler... Or Dogs Refusing To Leave The Bodies Of The People They Were Bonded To, Sitting In Cemeteries For Days Or Sometimes Weeks. You Find These Stories Endlessly.

I Write Characters And Stories That Move Me, And I Write From The Heart.

At Lackland Air Force Base, They Make An Effort To Retrain Military Dogs That Suffer From Ptsd. It's A Lengthy, Long Process. The Treatment Is Much The Same As It Would Be For People, But It's A Difficult Road Back.

I Have These Huge Black Foam Boards On The Wall, And Tacked To Them, I Have These White Punch Cards With My Story Ideas, Scenes And Notes.