FLATULENT DOGS haunt Bear’s dreams, the first one in a lurid dream with Asian twins named Valentina and Valeria. Bear gets a whiff of something really funky. A decrepit pit bull appears on the bed, looks Bear in the eye and says: “I’m just an old stink dog, but I know what’s right.” That’s two years ago. Odorous dogs appear in every dream since. “Fartin’ dogs are on my trail,” says Bear. “I don’t know what it means.”

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