Section 1: Dear Pen Pal & Canis Exequiae Summary

Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead by Bert V. Royal is a play about a teenage boy, CB, who begins to question the existence of an afterlife after his dog dies. Unable to find solace from his friends after his dog's death, CB turns to an artistic classmate, but their rekindled friendship pushes the bounds of what CB's friends are willing to accept, forcing CB to consider who he wants to be. Dog Sees God is a touching and thought-provoking play about being different in a school filled with people who all pretend to be the same.

In "Dear Pen Pal," CB addresses his pen pal to whom he has not written in a few years and who never wrote back when he was a child. CB's dog, a beagle he...