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Rose Madeline Mula was an executive assistant, public relations specialist, freelance technical writer, and operations manager for a New England theater chain before she was able to devote full time to her passion for writing humorous essays about everyday experiences. Her work appears frequently in "The Saturday Evening Post"; and she has been published in "Yankee," "The Boston Globe," "The Baltimore Sun," "The Philadelphia Inquirer," and over a hundred other magazines and newspapers. Rose also gives humorous presentations about her new book, IF THESE ARE LAUGH LINES, I'M HAVING WAY TOO MUCH FUN (Pelican Publishing, May, 2006), which is available at bookstores and through online booksellers.

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Animal humor

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How do people manage today? How do they pay their mortgages, fill the tanks of their SUVs and the tummies and college bank accounts of their kids, while simultaneously financing dance, skiing, skating, gymnastics, swimming and music lessons? And given all this, how can they support their high-maintenance pets? It's not like when I was a child. I did have a dog, an adorable little mongrel named Trixie. Pedigree? Papers? Are you kidding? But what she lacked in breeding, she made up for in cuteness and economy. Fortunately, she wasn't a discriminating diner. She happily ate table scraps. Furt...

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