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About me

P.S. Gifford is a transplanted Englishman who has called California home for over twenty years.

He is a full time writer, is married, has a teenage son, two dogs, one rabbit and an endless dream.

I shall be reading from, then signing copies of, my latest book in San Francisco at Borderlands on January 18th. If you live near by please drop by and say 'hello!'

For more information please check out www.psgifford.com

Briefly me

My passion is ...

Writing- I am a published author

I know too much about ...

food. I was a restaurant manager for seventeen years and love to cook.

My parents always told me ...

Put my book down and go and kick a ball around like normal kids.

My childhood ambition ...

To write

My favorite memory ...

Getting married

Why I write ...

To fight back the demons.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

John Everson's Needles and Sins (A Brilliant book folks.)

My first job ...

at a movie theatre.

My best moment ...

Being a guest speaker at this years HyperIcon convention.

My inspiration ...

To keep on doing what I am doing for as long as I can do it.

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Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Losing a pet: 2 of 8

Yesterday was one of the hardest days of my life. I made the difficult decision to have my beloved Tasha- a gorgeous German shepherd/ Collie mix to sleep. She had been vomiting for the last couple of days and they had done all the tests on her. The results came back with about the worst possible news- her kidneys had failed. This meant that she was slowly- and painfully- being poisoned. I was told that they could flush out her system and she would live for a little while- but she would be in discomfort and we would soon be back to where we were now. I was gutted. However staring into her e...
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