Calvin

by Bonnie Jae Dane | Jan 2, 2020 | Tiny Stories

Yesterday, I watched my new neighbor spraying his flowers with a noxious agent determined to destroy the ground underneath his sturdy work shoes. My dog Mavis and I hung over his back fence hollering at him to bring his ear closer and let me whisper a few suggestions...

My Dog Mavis

by Bonnie Jae Dane | Dec 11, 2019 | Tiny Stories

I want to lie down in a bed of flowers next to my dog where the sun graces us with a shimmer that warms our toes and tells me it’s okay to be crazy now and run my tongue over a daffodil and tickle my dog’s ears with bamboo grass. Life takes turns playing...

Parental Outpatients Publication

by Bonnie Jae Dane | Nov 5, 2019 | Book News

Exciting news today! My new novel ‘Parental Outpatients’ has just been published and is now available on Amazon. Find out more below. Parental Outpatients exposes the great divide that exists between today’s electronic-laden teens and their bewildered...

Howard the Dog Poet

by Bonnie Jae Dane | Nov 5, 2019 | Tiny Stories

Every day I mosey my lazy butt down to that Zen guy’s gussied up garden and rest my nerves. They’re shot from listening to my human person talk endlessly about Mr. Darcy coming to dinner. I don’t know whether I’m in a sitcom or a romance novel. My life doesn’t feel...

Anxiety Attack

by Bonnie Jae Dane | Oct 21, 2019 | Tiny Stories

Childhood caused a disruption to my soul. It leaned heavy on my tender heart and left me breathless from sucking in the fumes of other people’s anger. Agitation can ease its way into a small being, who has no defense against hot and nasty words that fly through the...