title: Dogs in the Sun: A Tropical Odyssey
author:  Janice L. Convery 
description: Janice Convery can spell the word Oceanliner with her full name and is convinced she has the ghost of a mariner inside. Born in New Jersey, raised in Haiti, she graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Magazine Journalism and English Literature which she put to good use working on a monthly business paper and turning the movie "Boys On The Side" into a novel for Warner Brothers. She has written a spec film script called Chicklettes and worked on many Hollywood feature films and music videos. Janice loves all kinds of transportation--ships, planes, trains, motorcycles and automobiles, and is a certified locomotive engineer. She calls Los Angeles and Albuquerque home.
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  **SLEEPING DOGS**
  
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  **Chris Simms**
  
    
    
  
  Copyright © 2014 Chris Simms
  
    
  
  The right of Chris Simms to be identified as the author of this work has been
  asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act
  1988.
  
    
  
  All rights reserved.
  
   **Dedication.**
  
    
  
  In fond memory of Courcey and Nana: two special people from an incredible
  place.
  
    
    
    
    
    
  
  ‘The name drifts across the mind like cloud shadows on a mountainside.’
  
  Tim Robinson, _Connemara_
  
    
    
    
    
    
  
   **Part I**
  
    
  
   **Chapter 1**
  
    
  
  Trees stood gnarled and naked beneath a dead winter sky. Everything was still:
  mist hanging motionless above grass made white by the cold. Jon Spicer looked
  around for his Boxer dog, Punch. The animal’s nose was low to the ground, legs
  moving fast as it sped along the zigzagging trail of a rabbit long gone.
  
  Trying to keep up was his six-year-old daughter, Holly. Her bright red wellies
  made it difficult to cope with the sudden changes of dire