Dances With Jackals - Umberto Tosi
Marcos Rodriguez Pantoja poses for Matthew Bremner's recent Guardian profile. An article in the Guardian knocked me on my backside the other day. The feature, How to Be Human by Matthew Bremner, examined the life of Marcos RodrÃguez Pantoja, an elderly Spaniard had been abandoned as a child and had survived fifteen years in the Andalusian mountains with wolves as his only companions. L ike a real-life Romulus and Remus , he owes his life to a she-wolf, who accepted the small boy as part of her litter, sharing food, after he crawled into their den seeking shelter from the cold on the first night or second night of his long ordeal. Deja vu: My Dog's Name , the novella I've been revising for inclusion in Sometimes Ridiculous , my forthcoming softcover story collection, has a similar, archetypal plot. A boy, presumed buried by a mudslide, roams the Hollywood Hills with a family of coyotes. I wrote it back 2013, havin...