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Meet Dog Face Bride from The Monsters of Chavez Ravine

[Note: Since I'm unable to post pictures here, just a warning that if you want to see the illustration & animated version of the monster, you'll need to click the link to my blog post to seem them.]

The monsters in my urban fantasy novella, The Monsters of Chavez Ravine, are many and come in different shapes and sizes, but the one that first popped into my head was Dog Face Bride.

I’ve been thinking about it since I was a kid.

Thank you, Grandma Chata. Whenever I asked my grandmother for a story, she told the same one every time. Now that I think back on it, it was a strange tale for such a sweet, kindhearted woman to tell a young child. I spent most weekends with my grandmother, a seamstress, at her house in Boyle Heights.

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