Brian Gotta

Below is an excerpt from my novel, Him which you can order on Amazon. 

She went to other houses while I ate. I knew she was putting food in other dogs’ bowls as well, because it sounded like when rain fell hard from the sky in the Big Yard and landed on the thing he put my potty into. I heard her say, “Hi Brutus, old boy!” then, “Hello, Nutmeg!” and “Hello, Lucky!” There were happy whimpers, excited barks and crunching teeth- on-food sounds. That is why the food tasted better. She put happy in it.