My dog, William, is hard to miss these days—he weighs about 150 lbs. He’s a Great Dane/Neapolitan Mastiff mix. This is a picture of him when he was smaller, at 9 weeks old.
David Taylor Black is an aspiring best-selling author who began his career at nine with the script of the as-yet unfinished film, In the Backyard. The premise may or may not have been a bit of a rip-off of a James Bond movie—with lots of running. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona with his partner, Dion, and his too-big-to-be-a-lapdog dog, William.