Guilie Castillo Oriard is a Mexican writer and dog rescuer living in Cura ao She misses Mexican food and Mexican amabilidad, but the laissez faire attitude and the beaches are fair exchange And the bounty of cultural diversity provides great fodder for her obsession with culture clashes Her work has appeared online and, in print, as part of several anthologies gorge a novel in stories and Pure Slush s twelve volumes of 2014 A Year In Stories The Miracle of Small Things, her first novel, was published in 2015 by Truth Serum Press It s About The Dog The A to Z Guide for Wannabe Dog Rescuers , due out in December 2017 from Everytime Press, is her first non fiction work.