The Dogs: Not Exactly Night IV
**IV**. _The Sandbar Won't Form Unless the Moon Returns_ The Sun was in the last throes of setting, throwing ancient, sacred fire onto the horizon in vermillion exquisiteness –...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night V
**V**. _The Beast That Shouted 'Fuck' At the Heart of the World_ Cody was on the bed, playing his 3DS, sorting his Pokémon in their boxes – there were all kinds of rumors on...
The Dogs: Hath A Familiar Spirit
**July 15th 1877, Childers Street, Tempest, West Virginia** _Anyone who has ever lived in West Virginia, or even travelled through the state, can easily see what an ideal place it would be for ghosts._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Ruth Ann...
Lykos - Mat P "Halloween Night" pt 2
And a big thank you to leo_todrius, trickster_d, agouru, sangheilinerd, nex_canis, minsc9, aux chiens, mrfox, aqua shinsu and master georgio without whom i would not have had the courage or drive to write this and feel like it was really worthy of being posted
The Dogs: Be Not Conformed To This World
**23d April 1986, Bernard's Landing, Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia** _When these lips shall never more Press a kiss upon thy brow But lie cold and still in death Will you love me then as now?_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ The Carter Family,...
Forests of the Noonday Sun (Collab With Xax)
_Why, let the stricken deer go weep,_ _The hart ungalled play;_ _For some must watch, while some must sleep:_ _So runs the world away._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ William Shakespeare, _Hamlet_, Act III, Scene ii West of Asheville the Appalachians rise...
Depths
_For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves that we find in the sea_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ E.E. Cummings, "maggie and milly and molly and may" **i.** Every beach in Florida has been mercilessly colonized - every beach in Florida...
Everything Goes Green (Parts I-III: Commission For Kybal Lutra)
_And in the day, when he shall walk abroad,_ _Like sylvan nymphs my pages shall be clad_ _My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns,_ _Shall with their goat-feet dance the antic hay..._ _\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\__ Christopher Marlowe,_Edward II_, Act I,...
Bloom
_Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Vladimir Nabokov, _Mary_ When Dakota Tyree's mom, Lisa, who gave him the nickname _Cody_,_ _was still alive, and his dad Teddy...
Lykos - Mat P "Halloween Night"
And a big thank you to leo_todrius, trickster_d, agouru, sangheilinerd, nex_canis, minsc9, aux chiens, mrfox, aqua shinsu and master georgio without whom i would not have had the courage or drive to write this and feel like it was really worthy of being posted
The Dogs: The Cold of Snow In the Time of Harvest
_ **22nd December 1994, Edgecrestwood, Tempest, West Virginia** She play'd & she melted in all her prime,_ _And the winter call'd it a dreadful crime._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ William Blake, "Soft Snow" Archibald Lightfoot would come to remember...
The Dogs: Maketh the Day Dark
_One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more...