The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode XVII
Andrew's sleep for the rest of the night was, as it had been on the couch with Bligh, dreamless - for as much and as long as the past had haunted most every time he had shut his eyes these traumatic two days, it had, at last, for the first night he...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode XVI
He was twelve again - just old enough to get wise to his Pa and everything he stood for, still old enough to know that Bligh was the most important person in his life. Even little Stevie, his own brother - ten years old, pale and gaunt and morbidly...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode XV
The silence between the three of them was deadly - Andrew standing in the kitchen, Bligh, his Ravens cap back on, in a chair at the kitchen table a few feet away, Cody beneath him on the floor, the white shirt he had been wearing clutched to his...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode XIV
Three clinks on the small, round table in the indented alcove next to the kitchen that was meant to be the apartment's dining room announced that Andrew's dinner for the three of them - a plate of pancakes with pads of butter melting in the midst of...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode XIII
Andrew was silent on the ride to the Green Room - a mere five minutes, but the interior of his car, even with the windows down, was still laced with a palpable tension, as it had been that afternoon...but all the while, his hand never left Bligh's....
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode XII
Andrew, fully dressed - his new canid ears stuffed, thankfully easily, into that old USF cap, his furry legs and tail hidden by a pair of khakis, and the padded wolf-like feet luckily fitting neatly into an his other pair of shoes, some Adidas he had...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode XI
Andrew's sleep was deep and dreamless - it was a complete, nigh-comatose blackness, the absence of color and light that being exhausted brings, his brain and body shutting down from the strain it had endured over the past twenty-four hours. He awoke...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode X
The door shut behind them - with its closing, the final click of metal going inside metal, the universe seemed to stop...Bligh and Andrew, home from dropping Cody off at work, now, both very aware of how alone they were. Andrew turned away from the...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode IX
They sat in the Grand Wagoneer, Andrew, Cody, and Bligh, together, in silence...they had remained that way for the entire car ride, and now for a solid two minutes of unbearable awkwardness in the parking lot outside the Checkers down the street from...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode VIII
It was the day he was supposed to leave - it was a fine day in July, the weather warm but not hot, and the Sun pleasantly bright as it shone through the big, luxuriant hickories in his family's front yard, dappling the ground beneath it with...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode VII
The grass beneath him was coated in a fine silver of frost on that December morning, the breath that escaped from his mouth made him look like a dragon - a haughty dragon, with his head held a little too high and his smile a little too smug. His hair...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode VI
It was November - the sky was leaden. Blowing through the air was a cold mist, not quite rain, not quite fog, in this golden-grey world where all the trees stood, half-naked in their autumnal mourning cloaks - vanishing leaves. A Gothic picture -...