Voices en Español

I’m a dog person. To me, dogs are wonderful, intelligent animals. I can’t even fathom how anyone could ever be cruel to a dog.

That’s why the news story of a serial dog killer in Hong Kong, China really disturbed me. More than 100 dogs have been poisoned in the past 20 years by someone who has a true hatred of canines. I first heard about this case before I started blogging, during the fall of 2005, from a front-page story published in the Wall Street Journal about the mysterious unsolved case.  At the time I was enrolled in a Spanish-language writing class and one of the homework assignments was to write a short story. So I decided to write a fictional account based on the newspaper story I had read. The true story has recently come back into the news as the killer, after an extended period of inactivity, has emerged once again.

You can hear a reading of “El carnicero de Bowen Road” over on my other blog, Cody’s Cuentos. It’s not a typical children’s story but I figured it would work better over there then on this blog. In any case, if you’d like to hear a podcast of the story, click here.