Ludlow Charlington’s Coffee House in Chicago has a nifty decorative feature: eleven ornate portraits of contemporary dogs dressed in historical costumes.
Editor Tina L. Jens has put together a nifty charity anthology, Ludlow Charlington’s Doghouse, which goes on sale today, in which nineteen writers — including me! — have taken one of those eleven portraits and built a story, poem, drabble, or play around it. All proceeds from this anthology go to benefit Friends of Chicago Animal Care and Control.
For my part, I wrote a drabble, based on the pooch in the image below, called “History Lesson for Royal Puppies in the Castle Portrait Gallery.”
The full author list includes:
- Alexandria Baisden
- Sue Burke
- C.B. Channell
- Keith R.A. DeCandido
- Jaym Gates
- Tazmania Hayward
- K. M. Herkes
- Rhys Hughes
- Joe Janes
- Tina L. Jens
- Lauren A. R. Masterson
- Charissa Menefee
- Beth W. Patterson
- Steven H Silver
- Jeffrey Thomas
- Scott Thomas
- J9 Vaughn
- Sean Margaret Wagner
- John Weagly
So buy a doggone good book and do some good for dogs!
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