Review: Special little story with a special, magical mutt
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 14, 2011
Michael suffers from a rare eye disease. Depressed from his wife's death one year earlier and angry over this blindness robbing him from his art and his carpentry, he is slowly wasting away, subsisting on bitterness and whiskey. His wife was a witch and had a special way with magic, and his daughter, Rebecca, with the help of her mom's spell book, is determined to find a way to reach out to her father. Rebecca remembers a spell her mom used to do for her, a spell that turned a puff of exhaled breath into an explosion of fiery colors. She wants to use this same sort of magic to help her dad see colors again.I'm an animal lover and a real sucker for dog stories, those stories where a wise animal persists in showing a stubborn human a needed and deserved lesson in how to live and love again. Don't want to give a lot away, but I have to say that "wo, wu, woo" line really got me (dog speak for "I love you"). Probably seems silly, I guess, but it did get me. I liked this short story, a lot; it was a little bittersweet for me, hopeful but sad at the same time. Sometimes animals come into your life for only a short time but always for a specific purpose, if you let them reveal it to you. And this dog revealed to Michael a world of color that even a blind man could see.