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Snow Dog

Aug 042012

The re-appearance of anonymous photos on the web has prompted strenuous denials from Battersea Dogs’ Home that cutbacks in the heating budget last January caused severe distress amongst some of their more short-haired residents.

Photo by Brian Parsons

[This piece originally appeared in Smoke 15.]

Tagged with: Animals, Battersea, Brian Parsons

Looking back through the clouds…

The Jackass and his Sister

by Cassandra Solon-Parry
The man was tall and thickly built. He had a bushy, greying moustache and was dressed entirely in black, with a short jacket that resembled a cape, and a bowler hat. But the thing that had made Rachel, and everyone else, stop what they were doing was the extraordinary musical instrument he carried. It appeared to have been tacked together from pieces of violin and at least two trumpets, the horns of which were ranged one on top of the other above the bridge and strings of the violin. [read more...]