Sydney Harth, in spite of her name, is a woman with an academic background---Phd, University of Chicago, medieval, 1960.  Now retired from both teaching and the middle ages, she spends her time writing stories about unreliable people on an unreliable computer.  A dog, in many of her recent stories, plays a significant role.  She has published more than four dozen of these stories, eight or nine with a dog for a leading character, and hopes to collect a group of dog stories into a book called The Dog People.  The title story has recently appeared in The Prairie Star.