In The Doghouse: Chapter Thirteen
"That can't be good." Reid muttered to himself, pulling to a stop in his truck in front of Vance's modest, suburban home. Vance's Supra was parked in the haphazard way not uncommonly seen amongst the habitually drunk. Half in the driveway, half in the...
Not Much for Portraits
A fox leaped over a felled oak tree in pursuit of his evening meal; a white rabbit. Mother Nature's wall-to-wall carpeting- a thick blanket woven of leaves and pine needles covered the forest floor beneath the sprightly paws. Trees stood rooted to...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Four
Reid stood there, his face frozen in the same smile he'd worn the moment he reached out to shake her hand. Slowly, the corners wilted, and his affable grin turned into a queasy, borderline creepy display of his teeth. Vance blinked, and Lucy took on a...
Valium & Vodka: Chapter Four
The fitting lyrics of a sad, country dirge stirred Reid from his sleep in a puddle of drool, and he groped for his phone, finding the device a few seconds too late to answer a phone call from a phone number he didn't even know. He groaned and rolled...
Valium & Vodka: Chapter Seven
By the time Reid had completed his morning routine, he'd cut his time down so much that he'd left none for breakfast at home. Shrug. He'd pick up a breakfast taco at the corner grocery on the way; they always gave him wicked bad gas, but with the...
Valium & Vodka: Chapter Nine
Kelvin had slept soundly, once he'd finally cried himself to sleep. Sunlight beat his alarm by five minutes, and the Shiba Inu sat up on the couch, his back aching dully from the piece of furniture that was probably older than he was. He grabbed the...
Valium & Vodka: Chapter Eleven
Reid's brain had gone into hyperdrive. Tan-furred hands quivered and shook like those of a man three times his age as he tried to push a 13mm deep socket onto a hex nut holding an exhaust manifold in place. He could hear the tool laughing at...
Valium & Vodka: Chapter Ten
Sand and surf had been replaced with a kitchen sink. Reid and Kelvin tended bar, creating a cocktail of monstrous proportion in the city sewers. Bottles of rum, gin, vodka, tequila, and good old sour mash whiskey were opened and upended into the...
Valium & Vodka: Chapter Twelve
The emptiness of the apartment breathed with an air of death's presence in Kelvin's life when he woke up in Reid's bed. It smelled like him, which was why after nearly falling asleep at the wheel on his way back to the apartment, Kelvin had crashed...
Valium & Vodka: Chapter Thirteen
Kelvin shot straight up in bed, damp with a chilling sweat. A breath and a half later he turned to see Reid lying peacefully beside him. He reached out with a cautious hand and placed it on the heeler's arm, sighing with relief to feel the telltale...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Two
There were only so many potholes to be patched. Vance sighed. The front door of his house loomed ahead of him like the executioner's door. Blaine had seen the receipt, she knew exactly how much he'd paid for that new turbocharger, and he would...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Seven
Paul was nearly thirteen hours into the fourteen-hour journey that took him from Wyoming to Los Angeles. His energy stores were running on the fumes of the last energy drink he'd downed, the spent can lying on the passenger side floorboard amongst a...