In The Doghouse: Chapter Seventeen
Reid had taken making every day a new day to a whole new level. He turned and stretched in bed as the morning sunlight crept diffused by sheer curtains into a strange bedroom, with a strange ceiling, and a rather odd-feeling bed, as in, it was not...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Twelve
When Veronica Gianotti walked in through the front doors of Doghouse Performance Engineering, she made the plain, commercial glass and steel doors look like the entrance to the Golden Globe Awards. An engine even sputtered to its death in the back -...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Eighteen
Reid learned the difference between a grocery store and the emergency room that day. You didn't worry about finding a good parking spot when there was an emergency. Reid swung that Mustang into an awkward stop on the edge of the drive where...
Valium & Vodka: Chapter Eight
Aiden just laughed when he heard of the previous night's short-lived encounter - a laugh that was simultaneously a pressure release valve for Reid. He'd met the lab for lunch that day, versus being picked up at the shop. Once was normal for...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Six
It had been four months since Blaine had nearly fainted from the reading on the drug store pregnancy test. She'd gone through no less than three more before an appointment with her OB/GYN confirmed that she was in fact pregnant. She was beginning to...
Valium & Vodka: Final Chapter
In the morning, it was water instead of beer. A handful of peanuts had become a handful of pills. Immunosuppressants. Anxiolytics. Anticonvulsants, benzodiazepines, painkillers, and blood thinners, just to name a few. They sat on his tongue like...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Eight
Reid stared at a blank wall in his house and figured that it would be a perfect spot for a fireplace, assuming that a fireplace would ever be needed for the seventy-degree Christmases known almost exclusively to Californians. While a fireplace was out...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Nine
Another four months had come and gone. Paul had receded into the depths of seclusion once more. After a tearful visit to the shop, he'd hugged his protégé and disappeared again, headed for the forests of Southern Wyoming. Erin had apologetically...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Five
When asked about the racing event previously discussed, Dr. Soto received a momentary widening of the eyes and an emphatic exhalation from the dog sitting across from her. Reid stretched his arms out over the back of the couch and leaned back into it...
Valium & Vodka: Chapter Three
It was a thirty minute drive from Reid's home in Glendale to Santa Monica, where all the guys from Doghouse were hamming it up with potential clients, schmoozing with the ladies, and downing drink after overpriced drink. Anxiety welled up inside...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Three
Vance was no-billed. In light of the evidence and testimonies of DPE employees, the grand jury did not see fit to indict the pit bull on homicide charges. When the verdict was read, Vance sighed with a breath he'd been holding since he learned that...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Ten
Cruel and unusual punishment, thy name is a crying baby. Vance awoke at the ungodly hour of zero-two-hundred, red-eyed and hoping that Blaine would shuffle out of bed and tend to Kaitlin, who was calling for them in the way babies do for the third...