Dog Loss

Two's Company, Three's a Pack-A Story About Dogs, Life and Loss is a heartwarming and humorous tale of the dynamic within a canine/human pack. Surprising similarities between the strength of human and animal bonds are realized as the pack grows in size and age.

Horse trainer Naomi McDonald impulsively buys a "shy" Border Collie pup named Luke, and she believes it's fate. However, puppy Luke shows no signs of herding instinct, and a trainer tells her to put him down. When Naomi has a vision of a past life, she realizes her journey with Luke involves more than meets the eye, more than she ever imagined. With the help of a medicine woman, Naomi learns that Luke is her teacher, not only for herding competitions but also for a spiritual journey that would take her into the world of shamanic healing, animal communication, and spiritual beings.

When a group of animals and plants in a Jamaican mesic forest learn that the government of Jamaica has implemented the construction of a major highway that is supposed to run through and destroy their forest home, the helpless animals and plants enlist the help of a twelve-year-old asthmatic orphan boy. Clueless as to where to begin, the powerless boy put together a motley crew that includes a Rastafarian callaloo, a mentally disturbed marijuana, a posh rose, a facetious croaking lizard, a warmonger tomboy worker bee, a gentle blackbird, a protester layer chicken, and the boy’s rescued ...

Frightening visions of abandonment, suicide, murder, and depression...nightmares populated by archetypes of spiritual evil, loneliness, death, mystery, and supernatural terror. These are the lifeblood of haunted poet, Michael H. Hanson. Take a step upon a dangerous carnival ride of the soul and brace yourself for jarring drops into shocking darkness. Dark Parchments offers up 85 chilling poems that crawl and slither through the fears staining the human psyche, making us shiver in the night. Scared yet? You will be.