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Laura S. Jones

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Laura S. Jones is an attorney who vastly prefers writing stories and rescuing dogs. She is a long time employee and volunteer with dog rescue organizations. Saving Sadie and Sasha tells the powerful story of her adventurous year with two foster pit pulls. Breaking and Entering, her debut short story collection, was published in 2011. Dogs often show up in those stories, too, along with a slew of divers characters. Her journalism has appeared in the Washington Post, Virginia Maryland Dog Magazine, and SWIMMER Magazine among other places.

Laura lives with her husband, two adored pit bull mixes and two tolerant cats in Virginia. Fallout Shelter, one of the stories in Breaking and Entering, was originally published in Short Story America Antholo
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Laura S. Jones I walk the dogs. Seriously. Moving lets me think differently. Then I have to rush back and write down any ideas. Or, I could bring a pen...
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Warning - this is a poem!

A man who has become very dear to me encouraged me to started writing again. He wondered what I would write now that my life - inner and outer - is so different. I said I was mostly writing bad poetry that shouldn't see the light of day. Then write a good book of bad poetry, he said. I laughed, but the thought - and title - stuck with me. So here, world, is a first installment on a good book of

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