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Russell A. Vassallo is a retired attorney, and lives beside his spouse Virginia on a smallholding in centralized Kentucky. Russell industrial plant the land, rides horses and lives an influential enthusiasm. He has handwritten two books roughly his fleshly friends, but he is by no way fixed to sensual stories. He normally complex on respective stories at once, and is now practical on Street Wise, a original in the region of his friendships next to mobsters.

Juanita: Welcome backmost to Reader Views Russell, we are so relieved to have the chance to make conversation beside you past once again. The ending example you stopped by Reader Views, you had fair free "Tears and Tales: Stories of Animal and Human Rescue," and present you are once more next to different newspaper. It looks similar you've been busy!

Russell: Hi Juanita, it's goodish to sermon to you over again. And yes, you're appropriate. I've only just discharged my new passage "The Horse next to the Golden Mane."

Juanita: Once again, your winning readers beside your fabulous carnal stories in "The Horse with the Golden Mane: Stories of Adventure, Mystery and Romance." How oodles stories are in this new collection? How hourlong have you been method on them?

Russell: There are iii satiated novelettes in this hotchpotch plus an inspirational prolusion called, When We're Down which is astir a regional churchgoer in Casey County, Kentucky. All the stories are based on genuine events and I'd say I've been functional on them peak of my life.

Stories similar to Eric if truth be told took core fifty geezerhood ago when I met a subsister of the Holocaust. The man transfixed me. He chock-full me with stories of pre-war Germany. And he had this dog that was very scarred. Eric is the narrative of how that occurred.

Taj, occurred to me shortly after we enraptured to Kentucky, 16 old age ago. The horse's designation is Power Blaster, but that autograph ne'er did thing for me. Once a equine has raced his dub cannot be denaturized so I denaturised it by print his legend. Taj is standing flesh and blood here on the work and in outstandingly right health and, I hope, enjoying both bit of his position. He even has a woman friend, Dusty Dart.

And finally, The Horse near the Golden Mane has been gelling ever since my mate had an automotive vehicle calamity in 1990. My chief persona purely unreservedly got distant from me and created a superb sketch overfull of twists and turns. It takes the thought of sorcerous rational to a new horizontal. I entirely shaken even myself because it's right onwards anything I have of all time through.

Juanita: What ties these cardinal stories together?

Russell: The connecting tie in all three stories is attachment. Eric is the subject matter of a alone man and an uninhabited dog, soldering beside all otherwise and facing a large brave. And it's a fiction of two human beings soldering in a contrary way. The narration takes the scholar to duration in a abroad country where specified a attachment was not viable during the Second World War.

In Taj, a man and his girl have been unloved as a repercussion of divorce. It takes the go through for a man and a colt -which are as well bonded- to forge a new and stronger union involving the leading fictional character and his girl and grandchild.

Now The Horse beside the Golden Mane is the linkage linking a man and his wife, one that has been cut off by division and in a connotation it's a grip of refutation because the main character, Pierce Bernard, only just cannot accept the reality that his better half is no long near him. It's the tale of a man's attempt to get his wife's esteem by grounding an unruly, suspicious pony. The student will sit on the border of his stool to breakthrough out if they of all time discovery each another again.

Juanita: Russell, would speak to us once once again active your admiration of animals? Has your existence e'er been substitutable beside animals?

Russell: As a adolescent I was ill next to cartilaginous tube respiratory disease every year for the firstborn eight geezerhood of my natural life. Most of that time was fatigued alone. Because of my ill health I couldn't romp after-school so I was beautiful substantially stormbound to bed or downstair. Animals have just always vie a primary module in my existence. I relate healed to them.

When I was well-knit ample to go outside, it was sole for an time unit or two and my single playmate was by Pomeranian, Palsy. Later, when we visited my grandfather's farm, I palled in circles next to two blood sport dogs, Rusty and Queenie, an Irish printer and a German Short-haired Pointer.

Juanita: As the eld pass, does your relation or warmth for your interchange next to animals change?

Russell: Yes, it does. As we age we get a greater intellectual capacity of being. With that, we be aware of the loyalty, the gratitude, the goodwill of animals as useful gifts. The association changes because we larn to be in touch with beside them... in their tongue. And we cram to accept their worship which becomes much cherished every day because our requests bud every day. That's why the passing of an fleshly friend inflicts specified weighty stimulating injured. It reminds us of our own impermanence and that is not something we compass when we are puppylike.

Juanita: Russell, do you assume dissimilar taxonomic group of animals - dogs, cats, horses, etc. - proposition their own uncomparable gifts to their human owners?

Russell: Definitely, yes. Our dogs are tied to us showing emotion but they are more than servile, nearly sycophantic sometimes. From them we addition feeling. Our cats, on the opposite hand, have the aforesaid feeling but they deny it. When Boots comes concluded to be petted, it's a excess because he is autarkic and makes his own choices. Dogs near have to conform. Cats do their own property. And horses, they are a contrastive anecdote totally. Some are easier to curve. Others will resource you on your sentinel all day. Some contour affection for you; others you have to clear their holding every day.

It's a known fact that physical owners tend to subsist longer. If they did a examination I'll bet they'd find that sensual owners lean to get better quicker from illnesses as well.

I consider everyone has a position in their lives for animals. A equine administrator will inform you that purely anyone neighbouring a equid takes him heed off his worries. There is something therapeutic almost a colt. If you drive the trajectory beside him your centering is the colt and your setting. There is simply no put for negative stimulus on a passageway. You and your horse are one entity.

The selfsame is faithful for a amble next to your dog. The certainty that they can run off if they elect to choose and yet they decide on to revisit is a contour of esteem in itself. It's a bonding, a impressively directed emotion.

Juanita: Would you breakup the cardinal stories in "The Horse next to the Golden Mane"? What are they all about?

Russell: Juanita that is a realistic urge because I don't deprivation to donate away the subject matter. All the stories have a spin that will bombshell the scholarly person. Let's foundation with Eric. The chief character, Sol, is a refugee from a Nazi strengthening military camp who comes to America to begin a new life span. He finds a bloodied Doberman Pincher down his storehouse. These were the extremely animals he saw bloodbath several of his fellow prisoners. But he and the dog go friends and one darkness while they are walk-to neighboring a wet expanse of a railroad line city, thing happens that threatens their lives. The break of the romance relates their snuggled union and the effort they both have to go.

In Taj, the crucial role is a attorney who races horses and waterfall in admire near Taj. And Taj returns that esteem by athletics lone for Grant. When the equid is claimed distant from him by else contest owners, it is abstracted from his region. He cannot pin down it. He loves the colt and wants to retire it from athletics because it suffered an hurt. So Grant Larsen goes in turn upside down of his horse, but before he does, his alienated girl calls to relay him he has a grandchild. She offers to facilitate him pin down his colt even on the other hand Grant's fiancée is not contented about the opinion because she knows the pained Grant continuous from his daughter.

Where Grant finds Taj and the state of affairs that preventing him from effort him stern right away gross an even more interesting yarn since not simply the betterment of his equus caballus is at stake, but the rescue of a petite lame young lady who has come up to liking Taj.

And The Horse next to the Golden Mane is based on a concept of artifice veracity where on earth somebody is not lasting if other mortal exists or not. There the interrogate is whether or not Pierce Bernard, the biggest character, in reality imagined his wife, Maya, or whether she really existed, whether she frozen does survive and whether or not his abnormal condition that grooming an unreformable red gelding will in reality influence her to official document residence turns out to be veracity. So he sets out to prepare and ride the uncontrollable horse, hoping that it will convert his partner he has transformed and can rush back earth once more.

His search to do that leads the reader into one concentrate after another until the surprise culmination when Pierce must face and brave a terrible truth.

Juanita: Is at hand any actuality to these stories?

Russell: Yes, at hand is.

Eric's tale is emphatically genuine. Every happening beforehand and after and even those measures restrained in the Afterword are truthful. It wasn't tight to communicate because I was if truth be told news what I had seen and skilled. Even whatsoever of the talking is trustworthy. I'm not in no doubt if that is truly writing, but it makes for a gripping story, one of the optimum I have ever finished. I curtains the message beside a lot of regret because I had to move Sol and Eric astern and dislodge on to something else.

Taj is likewise truthful. Taj did contest for us and for us unsocial and he was claimed and separate from New Jersey. My girl and I were unloved. She ran off and got united antagonistic my wishes and I had not seen her in old age. When she attempted telling me something like my grandson, I wasn't deeply amenable to her telephone call. But her earnestness and inclination to aid and to get her spot as my daughter colorful me and led to a cooperation. It's genuinely the parable of a equid soldering father and female offspring as symptomless as find a wasted equine.

The Horse next to the Golden Mane is supported on a faithful circumstance. In 1990, my spouse was up to my neck in a austere happenstance. After that, it would look near were nowadays when I could be aware of her subsequent to me in bed, but when I turned, she wasn't there. A few moments following I would watch once again and nearby she was. Sometimes I suggestion I was active mad, inventing somebody who genuinely didn't exist.

So I started thinking: What if she really weren't there? What if she genuinely died in that happenstance and I merely fictitious her state because I couldn't shelf to misplace my wife? On that night, I knew that Grant Bernard had been born. But I didn't cognize wherever he would end up until he told me. It was another vehicle for relating environment of my enthusiasm. Lasco's really did exist. Grant really was a lawyer. Maya is supported on a tangible causal agency. That generous of state of affairs.

Juanita: Russell, what keeps you obsessive to write?

Russell: Approval and the fancy to assist. I imagine every author requests blessing of one category or another. We attempt to be complete in an flawed world, to receive a difference, to gain that pat on the wager on or that "yes, here's a order of payment for your relation." I besides expectation it will ignite other family to dash off of their experiences. No experience should be lost. No lifespan thin.

Juanita: Russell, you've had education rehabilitating misused animals, and cover this bring out in both of your words. How does the go through of attachment beside a once misused animal be different from their unfettered counterparts?

Russell: When you addition a dog from birth or a new animal, the affiliation is one of direct trust and liking. With an misused animal you really have to endeavour for that holding. We took on the Nikki of Tears and Tales and you couldn't bring to the fore your linear unit circa her or decision making up a fly flyswat. In subsequent years, I could do anything near her I yearned-for because she trusted me. That's friendliness.

Red Leader, The Horse with the Golden Mane, was so misused my married woman couldn't get in a stall with him and he'd cite perfectly at you in the paddocks. Today I drive that foal on the trails and he is wonderful, follows me about the pen like a pet dog. That's material possession. Earned belongings. And it's heart-warming. It's when you cognise that the esteem you have filling has wrought something else in a cheerful thrust.

Juanita: Once again, you're propulsion on readers compassion in this newspaper. Russell, would you observation on the boomingly stormy outlook of your writing?

Russell: I am a highly open-hearted and devout cause who is reverberatingly tinged by human or carnal suffering. Others make a choice to go and assist and that is munificent and great of them, but after they help, the lives of others go on full. By writing, I hope to clear the facilitate irreparable. I expectation to touch others so they will go out and oblige. I poverty others to choose a Sweet Pea or Spunky or Red Leader. I impoverishment them to garner all the benefits from animals that I have completed the age.

I create verbally from the suspicion because I quality from the suspicion. That is why one referee from the Kentucky Monthly Magazine aforesaid of me in his second look of Tears and Tales: And although the accounts are poignant, they are not over-wrought near worthless emotionality."

I vindicatory don't have it in me to be picaresque or meretricious and I gut feeling it comes done in my inscription. I even cry when I publication my own stories because they are supported on profoundly emotional love for me.

Juanita: I catch sight of that all iii of the quality characters in your new stories are men. Did you consciously decide this? Do you get the impression that men and women sticking together differently, or for contrastive reasons than the other?

Russell: My principal characters were all men because innocently I don't cognise if I can takeover the content of a female behaviour. I cognise I will try one day, but I am not positive I can appropriation all the detail, the nuisances of how a woman might act in a situation. As I secure into inscription and analysis more than women mayhap I'll touch more untroubled. Right now, I cognize how men come up with. I have to swot up how women do.

Not simply that, but all these experiences were personalized experiences so I am genuinely characters active myself. The after-dinner speaker in Eric was me. The parent in Taj was me. Now, the man in Horse was a complex of respective men but based on my own life's experience. I suspect that when I touch cocksure to convey off myself I'll have a female guise. Write what you cognise. Well, I cognize "me."

Juanita: Russell, what some other projects are you serviceable on?

Russell: I newly ended a brief sketch titled "I'm Here" which is someone submitted to a game. I've cursive various brief stories which I am aggregation for a variety of contests and eventually will be published as Street People: The Common and the Uncommon.

A story I've had a lot of call for for is Street Wise: Memoirs of the Mob. I grew up in a beautiful tough section and my granddaddy was section of the old Mafia. I had a lot of interaction beside mob citizens ended the eld and study I power in progress other loin to these inhabitants that the planetary seldom sees.

I have two fairly fattened books on the machine that strength have been realised by now except for the selling facet of self-publishing. It only consumes a lot of event. One of them is the Search Beyond and yet another, The Last Ride, where a man and his pony are eviscerate on an icy summit top and face the weather.

Juanita: How can readers insight out more in the order of you and your books?

Russell: Well our web spot is that is with a K. They can email questions to and gesticulation up for our period newsletter which is extricated and keeps one and all updated on the books and prevalent trial. My blog locality is (it's in my report to) in which we collaborate astir our a variety of travels to different countries. Our web land site is wedge in depth of statistics and you don't have to acquisition a work to get our newsletter.

My books are carried on Amazon and maximum bookstores can bidding them, but we also publish direct to the state-supported and writing as healed. If they instruct straight from us, we too sailing ship exonerate and pay the gross sales tax.

Juanita: Russell, it has been large chitchat to you past again. Your new set book "The Horse with the Golden Mane: Stories of Adventure, Mystery and Romance," is a strange collection of stories and we indubitably advocate it to readers. Before we leave today, do you have any vital thoughts?

Russell: Well, I opinion my first-year transcript didn't net the best possible actor record but it has won three awards and has never had a examination nether five-stars. We were lately inscribed up in Kentucky Monthly Magazine which, for a beginning poet is courageous. But The Horse near the Golden Mane has something for each person and I am overconfident it will win as many, if not more, awards. It's been reviewed greatly favorably but respective top reviewers and the results aren't all in as yet.

Horse, as I telephone call it, transcends some sexual category and age. Both men and women can brainstorm something in it and delight in it. Kids, some youthful and adolescent, can also find solid-state amusement. And it's a spotless newspaper. No smut, so parents can be positive their offspring will be language something near well-behaved fair values. I guess that's strategic today.

I cognize they say you can't get rid of books if you don't have one sex in it. Well, I'd rather put on the market a smaller amount books and know my grandchildren can read them, afterwards hit the big book of numbers. Anyone who reads my books or momentaneous stories comes distant beside solid, essence values.