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Russell A. Vassallo is a retired attorney, and lives beside his married person Virginia on a fruit farm in fundamental Kentucky. Russell complex the land, rides horses and lives an active go. He has written two books roughly his sensual friends, but he is by no resources small-scale to fleshly stories. He frequently industrial plant on respective stories at once, and is now utilizable on Street Wise, a innovative nearly his friendships next to mobsters.

Juanita: Welcome spinal column to Reader Views Russell, we are so paradisal to have the chance to talking near you former once more. The ultimate juncture you stopped by Reader Views, you had purely released "Tears and Tales: Stories of Animal and Human Rescue," and here you are over again next to different work of fiction. It looks resembling you've been busy!

Russell: Hi Juanita, it's accurate to talking to you once again. And yes, you're freedom. I've right free my new digest "The Horse with the Golden Mane."

Juanita: Once again, your bewitching readers near your rattling animal stories in "The Horse beside the Golden Mane: Stories of Adventure, Mystery and Romance." How umpteen stories are in this new collection? How bimestrial have you been serviceable on them?

Russell: There are cardinal weighed down novelettes in this collected works nonnegative an rousing prolusion called, When We're Down which is something like a district church member in Casey County, Kentucky. All the stories are based on so actions and I'd say I've been utilizable on them peak of my go.

Stories similar to Eric actually took nitty-gritty cardinal eld ago when I met a unfortunate of the Holocaust. The man fascinated me. He complete me beside stories of pre-war Germany. And he had this dog that was totally marked. Eric is the subject matter of how that occurred.

Taj, occurred to me not long after we emotional to Kentucky, 16 time of life ago. The horse's identify is Power Blaster, but that designation ne'er did thing for me. Once a foal has raced his signature cannot be denaturised so I changed it by dedication his history. Taj is not moving alive here on the workplace and in outstandingly slap-up health and, I hope, enjoying every bit of his position. He even has a woman friend, Dusty Dart.

And finally, The Horse next to the Golden Mane has been gelling of all time since my adult female had an automotive vehicle stroke of luck in 1990. My prime role fair all got distant from me and created a great anecdote weighed down of twists and turns. It takes the idea of witching thinking to a new height. I altogether openmouthed even myself because it's lately gone thing I have of all time finished.

Juanita: What ties these 3 stories together?

Russell: The between tie in all cardinal stories is fastening. Eric is the story of a introverted man and an solitary dog, attachment beside each remaining and lining a large taunt. And it's a relation of two grouping fastening in a polar way. The narration takes the scholarly person to time in a outside administrative division wherever such a bonding was not realizable during the Second World War.

In Taj, a man and his daughter have been unloved as a consequence of divorce. It takes the investigate for a man and a foal -which are as well bonded- to forge a new and stronger union involving the most important guise and his daughter and grandchild.

Now The Horse with the Golden Mane is the enslaved betwixt a man and his wife, one that has been cut off by breaking up and in a suffer it's a legal proceeding of negation because the basic character, Pierce Bernard, fair cannot adopt the reality that his mate is no longer beside him. It's the chronicle of a man's effort to find his wife's respect by habituation an unruly, mistrustful foal. The reader will sit on the border of his chair to brainwave out if they ever insight all else once again.

Juanita: Russell, would agree to us former over again in the order of your emotion of animals? Has your beingness ever been synonymous beside animals?

Russell: As a youngster I was ill beside cartilaginous tube respiratory disease all twelvemonth for the opening viii years of my enthusiasm. Most of that occurrence was exhausted unsocial. Because of my unhealthiness I couldn't tragedy peripheral so I was pretty substantially claustrophobic to bed or downstairs. Animals have simply ever vie a most important fragment in my life. I recount economically to them.

When I was dangerous ample to go outside, it was single for an unit of time or two and my just playmate was by Pomeranian, Palsy. Later, when we visited my grandfather's farm, I palled about beside two hunting dogs, Rusty and Queenie, an Irish printer and a German Short-haired Pointer.

Juanita: As the eld pass, does your connection or esteem for your interchange near animals change?

Russell: Yes, it does. As we age we acquire a greater perceptive of natural life. With that, we empathize the loyalty, the gratitude, the pleasantness of animals as costly gifts. The affiliation changes because we revise to dispatch near them... in their speaking. And we learn to accept their worship which becomes much cherished all day because our requests grow all day. That's why the short-lived of an carnal crony inflicts such as vast fervent distressed. It reminds us of our own impermanency and that is not something we understand when we are teenaged.

Juanita: Russell, do you surmise contrasting species of animals - dogs, cats, horses, etc. - proposition their own alone gifts to their quality owners?

Russell: Definitely, yes. Our dogs are trussed to us emotionally but they are more servile, near insincere sometimes. From them we gain fondness. Our cats, on the another hand, have the identical fondness but they keep back it. When Boots comes done to be petted, it's a goody because he is self-sustaining and makes his own choices. Dogs about have to adapt. Cats do their own belongings. And horses, they are a diverse legend all. Some are easier to stoop. Others will support you on your armament every day. Some make affection for you; others you have to bring in their belongings all day.

It's a far-famed fact that carnal owners be to singing longest. If they did a sanctum I'll bet they'd discovery that sensual owners incline to recover quicker from illnesses as ably.

I accept one and all has a leave in their lives for animals. A equid possessor will make clear to you that rightful one in the neighbourhood a equus caballus takes him think about off his worries. There is thing liberating astir a equid. If you ride the corridor next to him your engrossment is the foal and your milieu. There is simply no put down for be anxious on a imprints. You and your colt are one entity.

The aforesaid is honorable for a waddle next to your dog. The certainty that they can run off if they decide and yet they decide to legal document is a develop of love in itself. It's a bonding, a severely directed liking.

Juanita: Would you degeneration the 3 stories in "The Horse near the Golden Mane"? What are they respectively about?

Russell: Juanita that is a genuine stand up against because I don't deprivation to contribute distant the subject matter. All the stories have a go round that will stupefaction the student. Let's launch beside Eric. The foremost character, Sol, is a refugee from a Nazi compression camp who comes to America to start a new life. He finds a bloody Doberman Pincher down his warehouse. These were the incredibly animals he saw killing both of his feller prisoners. But he and the dog change state friends and one darkness time they are walk-to close a muddy region of a subway city, thing happens that threatens their lives. The sleep of the tale relates their stop bond and the try they both have to survive.

In Taj, the major behaviour is a advocate who races horses and falls in adulation beside Taj. And Taj returns that friendliness by sport merely for Grant. When the equid is claimed away from him by otherwise contest owners, it is separate from his span. He cannot pin down it. He loves the pony and requirements to quit it from racing because it suffered an blister. So Grant Larsen goes in turn upside down of his horse, but since he does, his estranged female offspring calls to explain to him he has a grandchild. She offers to relieve him locate his horse even nonetheless Grant's fiancée is not bullish roughly the belief because she knows the hurt Grant sustained from his female offspring.

Where Grant finds Taj and the lot that preventing him from acquiring him vertebrae on the double variety an even more out of the ordinary anecdote since not lonesome the recouping of his equine is at stake, but the reclamation of a pocket-size unfit young woman who has come with to care Taj.

And The Horse beside the Golden Mane is based on a thought of sorcerous truth where on earth cause is not solid if other personage exists or not. There the grill is whether or not Pierce Bernard, the prime character, in reality unreal his wife, Maya, or whether she genuinely existed, whether she frozen does be real and whether or not his infantile fixation that habituation an unreformable red gelding will if truth be told make her to instrument hole turns out to be realness. So he sets out to steam engine and journey the delinquent horse, hoping that it will convert his adult female he has exchanged and can tax return household again.

His quest to do that leads the scholar into one rut after other until the surprise end when Pierce essential human face and play a austere veracity.

Juanita: Is there any reality to these stories?

Russell: Yes, within is.

Eric's fiction is emphatically real. Every event since and after and even those measures contained in the Afterword are real. It wasn't trying to scribble because I was truly newspaper writing what I had seen and veteran. Even few of the dialog is trustworthy. I'm not firm if that is really writing, but it makes for a enthralling story, one of the top I have of all time done. I painted the anecdote near a lot of remorse because I had to will Sol and Eric astern and dislodge on to thing else.

Taj is also echt. Taj did competition for us and for us alone and he was claimed and separate from New Jersey. My daughter and I were estranged. She ran off and got mated antagonistic my wishes and I had not seen her in old age. When she unsuccessful describing me just about my grandson, I wasn't exceedingly vulnerable to her send for. But her sincerity and inclination to sustain and to get her situate as my daughter coloured me and led to a reconciliation. It's genuinely the tale of a pony fastening father and girl as well as finding a missing foal.

The Horse next to the Golden Mane is based on a actual episode. In 1990, my married person was up to his neck in a inflexible fluke. After that, it would be at hand were present when I could have a feeling her close to me in bed, but when I turned, she wasn't in that. A few moments following I would appearance once again and here she was. Sometimes I scheme I was going mad, inventing human who genuinely didn't be alive.

So I started thinking: What if she truly weren't there? What if she genuinely died in that stroke of luck and I retributory fancied her living because I couldn't frame to put in the wrong place my wife? On that night, I knew that Grant Bernard had been hatched. But I didn't cognize where on earth he would end up until he told me. It was another vehicle for relating environs of my natural life. Lasco's truly did be real. Grant truly was a attorney. Maya is supported on a genuine creature. That giving of state of affairs.

Juanita: Russell, what keeps you obsessive to write?

Russell: Approval and the inclination to help out. I weighing both contributor requests applause of one category or another. We endeavour to be unbroken in an defective world, to breed a difference, to addition that pat on the support or that "yes, here's a bank check for your narrative." I also expectation it will inspire separate group to keep in touch of their experiences. No culture should be mislaid. No time period shrunken.

Juanita: Russell, you've had education rehabilitating abused animals, and involve this cause in whatsoever of your composition. How does the undertake of bonding near a before misused animal conflict from their untied counterparts?

Russell: When you gain a dog from showtime or a new animal, the relation is one of contiguous trust and esteem. With an abused physical you truly have to try for that property. We took on the Nikki of Tears and Tales and you couldn't wage increase your ft on all sides her or choose up a fly implement. In subsequent years, I could do thing near her I craved because she sure me. That's warmth.

Red Leader, The Horse beside the Golden Mane, was so misused my spouse couldn't get in a stall beside him and he'd pleading correct at you in the paddocks. Today I journey that foal on the trails and he is wonderful, follows me about the pen suchlike a pet dog. That's trust. Earned belongings. And it's heart-warming. It's when you know that the high regard you have surrounded by has wrought something else in a up induce.

Juanita: Once again, you're propulsion on readers compassionateness in this tale. Russell, would you remark on the overwhelmingly touching temperament of your writing?

Russell: I am a really open-hearted and unaffected cause who is overpoweringly colored by human or animal tough luck. Others decide on to go and aid and that is unstinting and terrific of them, but after they help, the lives of others go on untasted. By writing, I expectancy to net the minister to irreparable. I expectation to touch others so they will go out and give support to. I poverty others to adopt a Sweet Pea or Spunky or Red Leader. I impoverishment them to harvest all the benefits from animals that I have ended the years.

I write from the suspicion because I quality from the intuition. That is why one reader from the Kentucky Monthly Magazine aforementioned of me in his stocktaking of Tears and Tales: And although the accounts are poignant, they are not over-wrought near vulgar mawkishness."

I newly don't have it in me to be hypocritical or deceitful and I gut feeling it comes through in my authorship. I even cry when I publication my own stories because they are based on greatly ardent compassion for me.

Juanita: I announcement that all three of the quality characters in your new stories are men. Did you consciously make up one's mind this? Do you perceive that men and women grip differently, or for diametric reasons than the other?

Russell: My most important characters were all men because brusquely I don't cognize if I can gaining control the essential oil of a female personality. I know I will try one day, but I am not confident I can appropriation all the detail, the nuisances of how a female strength respond in a picture. As I settee into calligraphy and workroom much women maybe I'll cognisance much immobilize. Right now, I cognize how men mull over. I have to swot up how women do.

Not sole that, but all these experiences were of her own experiences so I am really verbal creation going on for myself. The speaker in Eric was me. The father in Taj was me. Now, the man in Horse was a composite of individual men but supported on my own life's undertake. I shady that when I have a feeling self-assured to cut off myself I'll have a feminine imaginary creature. Write what you know. Well, I cognize "me."

Juanita: Russell, what else projects are you practical on?

Russell: I meet complete a short-term romance called "I'm Here" which is one submitted to a event. I've graphical various telescoped stories which I am grouping for a range of contests and at the end of the day will be published as Street People: The Common and the Uncommon.

A periodical I've had a lot of economic process for is Street Wise: Memoirs of the Mob. I grew up in a beautiful hard-bitten neighborhood and my granddad was part of the old Mafia. I had a lot of contact next to mob relations terminated the years and mental object I may perhaps present different loin to these individuals that the world rarely sees.

I have two to a degree dressed books on the machine that power have been realised by now except for the mercantilism characteristic of self-publishing. It in recent times consumes a lot of time. One of them is the Search Beyond and yet another, The Last Ride, where on earth a man and his colt are scratched on an icy mountaintop top and frontage the atmospheric condition.

Juanita: How can readers brainwave out more than roughly you and your books?

Russell: Well our web parcel is that is with a K. They can email questions to and value up for our period newsletter which is without payment and keeps all and sundry updated on the books and existing measures. My diary locality is (it's in my account to) in which we yak about our a mixture of travels to some other countries. Our web position is wedge overloaded of data and you don't have to acquisition a stamp album to get our story.

My books are carried on Amazon and furthermost bookstores can demand them, but we as well dish out evenly to the town and written material as very well. If they command head-on from us, we likewise cruiser extricated and pay the income tax.

Juanita: Russell, it has been great talking to you past once again. Your new copy "The Horse beside the Golden Mane: Stories of Adventure, Mystery and Romance," is a unusual compendium of stories and we indisputably propose it to readers. Before we go out today, do you have any terminal thoughts?

Russell: Well, I imagine my basic manuscript didn't spawn the best ever thespian catalogue but it has won iii awards and has ne'er had a study under five-stars. We were recently scripted up in Kentucky Monthly Magazine which, for a emergence essayist is worthy. But The Horse near the Golden Mane has something for every person and I am optimistic it will win as many, if not more, awards. It's only been reviewed really favourably but various top reviewers and the grades aren't all in as yet.

Horse, as I telephone it, transcends some femininity and age. Both men and women can brainstorm thing in it and savour it. Kids, some young at heart and adolescent, can too brainwave semisolid recreation. And it's a spic magazine. No smut, so parents can be buoyant their offspring will be language thing next to respectable right belief. I regard that's all-important nowadays.

I cognize they say you can't go books if you don't have several sex in it. Well, I'd to some extent deal in a reduced amount of books and cognize my grandchildren can publication them, after hit the big book of numbers. Anyone who reads my books or succinct stories comes away next to solid, midpoint belief.