As children here in Aotearoa, we were compelled to drink half a pint of free milk every day at school. How I detested that slimy brew. I was allergic and became ostracized as "the kid with the snotty nose." It never cleared up until I got to secondary school where milk was not provided.

It would be cool to create a more realistic image showing a powerful looking character representing plant mylk and a bloated overweight, diseased person representing cow secretions. Would not be hard to do using AI graphics in Photoshop. I might give it a go.

And they are killing an animal, if indirectly, every time they take a mouthful of meat.

If we vegans are not careful, all our separate factions will become like religions and cause wars that kill ourselves instead of animals. We are animals too remember. Hard as it is for vegans to love the human species, we can't love and save animals until we first love and save ourselves.

Oh my unlucky and most beloved marine animal friends - you are top of this dreadful list.

Humans commit daily horror beyond imagining on innocent sentient beings. I notice the butcher killing the pig looks like one himself. The girl with her bovine victim looks like a cow to me. Both of the animals suit that look so much better.

has this protest started yet?

Farm animals are so much easier to see. I care abut farm animals too. But I focus all my creative energy on shedding light on human exploitation of marine beings amd trying to make them more visible to the human mind, even though the human eye sees to little of them.

In my latest story, the sea herself is the narrator. She was the only entity who could possibly have known.

Why do you carry the name "Stories From the Sea" ? It caught my eye. What is your link o the sea?

I'm not really into your genre so I'm sorry I did not buy your book, but I went onto Amazon and read the sample of Bloodspinner. It is very skilfully written.

I have an unrelated question for you. What is the story behind the question on your banner, "Do fish have balls?" It makes me curious.

Weird is good surely? Everything original has to seem weird to someone or how can it be original?😍😊

I hope you are being sarcastic?

This is why I write my sea stories, to show this from the point of view of the dolphins themselves. Dolphins are smarter than we are, and far more empathetic. I am always with them, either in my kayak or in my imagination. I work to let humans experience marine pain.

I can't believe I used to ride horses as a teenager, never giving a thought to the damage I might do to the horse's spine, which was never designed to carry the weight of a human and saddle. These days I just talk to horses in the field and smell their beautiful smell.

Stolen from calves for unhealthy humans.

You're reminding me of Paul Gallico with his cat story "Jennie." When this happens to me I find I'm swimming, have fins instead of hands, have no need of reading or even speaking because my infinite intellectual environment of "Ocean Mind" is a vast telepathic "idea-sphere" . And I'm a dolphin.

I am in New Zealand and hearing about this from afar. It must be such a worrying time for you all over there in the US. We have signs of a right-wing shift in this country too. Good uck with your book. What genre? Would love to hear more about it.