WARNING!
CONTAINS SCENES OF GRAPHIC VIOLENCE
Greetings and salutations, dear reader! It is absolutely AWESOME to be with you again and I want you to know that even if we’ve never met in person, you are having a positive impact on my life, right now, at this very moment. That is how wonderful you are to me, especially my returning readers. I wish blessings on you from my God and yours (if you have one). I genuinely believe that your mere existence makes this world a better place.
Now onto the violence.
This book does have violence in it. My returning readers already understand this extremely well. I am Russell A. Mebane, the Dolphin Killer, the writer who made a pack of small dogs murder an old woman. If any of these claims make you nauseous or light-headed then please, stop reading now, delete this book from your account, and never speak of it again.
At this point, I would like to elucidate on a small tradition some may not have noticed. Whenever I write a short story collection, I try to order the stories from the lightest to the darkest in tone, to make it easier for new readers to get into. I tried to do this in “Squirrels & Puppies,” but I didn’t realize that the squirrel sex in the first story was such a heavy subject. “Flowers & Kittens”, I’ll admit, was a little more random in order. This time, however, I’ve ordered the stories more successfully from light to dark. This time I took into account how many characters are killed and/or assaulted, how they’re killed and/or assaulted, and their species. Call me racist, but I think human deaths are darker than animal deaths. If you disagree with the order, write a review and tell me how you would’ve ordered the stories. Thank you again for being with me.
Enjoy the book!