Generation Rex

Hybrid animal/man images from ancient Pantheistic gods are still with us and are still imbued with the ability to terrify with shape-shifting and preternatural strength, such as the were-dogs and werewolves. And the shape-shifting of the human family? Pantheism is the new religion of nature worship, child sacrifice and its replacements………the Dog Children.

So women are choosing to raise dogs instead of children. So what? Aren’t there enough people in the world already? Dogs love their owners, don’t poop their pants, and don’t need a college savings fund. They simply love and admire a person for….well, statistics prove money is no object when it comes to Pampered Pets! Now let’s flip that coin. On the backside of it winks the spook-eye of another entity; Anubis, the Egyptian Anima-god of the dead with the snarling face of a dog……. and the body of a man. Hybrid animal/man images from ancient Pantheistic gods are still with us and are still imbued with the ability to terrify with shape-shifting and preternatural strength, such as the were-dogs and werewolves. And the shape-shifting of the human family? Pantheism is the new religion of nature worship, child sacrifice and its replacements………the Dog Children.

Anne Lafferty is the author of two lyrical novels, Pared To The Bone and its sequel, Hawkins Creek. These novels reflect intense living off the grid in a wild place, survivalist, living off the land; the conflict and beauty of love and ultimate loss.

‘As I stand here in the wet, sloppy snow, in the low light of the late winter sun, I can rehash to you once more the jaded story of love plus un-forgiveness, that old tale you’ve all heard too many times to care. A story featuring the faithless, rocky hills we presumed to live on, a quarreling of willful wind and wolves, the duplicity of dead- cold winters, the hard-to-get scramble of wood and water and food. Put your finger on a Wisconsin map, choose that hard-hearted space between bleak wind-scoured farmhouses and stony, unrelenting toil, and you have landed. Ed Gein lived around here, if that’s any consolation.

And while we're at it, let’s call it a place of wild, winsome heart’s connection and abrupt, harsh, haunting beauty..... a passion of purple blossom and sweetness under a downy blanket of sky blue……………a fickle, feckless love lost forever……….’

From Hawkins Creek.

Anne Lafferty is also the author of a book of short stories, Let’s All Go To The Dump, and two ebooks, Generation Rex and Good Lookin’ Old Women.

Anne lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.