The Black Shepherd - Chapter 22
**Chapter Twenty-two** **Wednesday August 13, 2008** **6:22pm** He knew a little. Roger knew that she had been meeting with Sandy pharmacist and all-state arrogant prick Grady Hicks in secret. That intel had come courtesy of Grady's second wife,...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 25
**Chapter Twenty-five** **Saturday September 5, 2009** **2:53pm** _WELCOME TO OHIO_ The greeting went by as a flash of green and white, and Bella tried to recall when she had last left the state of Indiana. Her parents had never been world...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 29
**Chapter Twenty-nine** **Saturday September 19, 2009** **7:59am** "Ew!" Nose pinched between two fingers and a load of recyclables in her other paw, Anessa looked 'round the garage for the source to a thick, foul stench. Her eyes wandered over...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 28
**Chapter Twenty-eight** **Monday September 14, 2009** Devil horns. Spiked collars. Signs posted 'round clamoring halls declared "MONSTER MONDAY!" The kickoff to homecoming week. Also in the halls: cries of "Hell's Bells," sniggers and sideways...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 30
**Chapter Thirty** **Friday September 19, 2014** **5:49pm** "Happy New year!! :)" "Hi! Can you call sometime? I really wanna talk" "Please just say if you're getting my messages..." "Dad said he tried calling already...i hope you're doing...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 34
**Chapter Thirty-four** **Sunday October 12, 2014** **12:41pm** Things started happening very fast. He was in a shirt and shoes with the Glock stuffed down a shorts pocket. He was ducking out of the patio door into daylight. He was in the parking...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 12
**Saturday June 28, 2008** **11:36am** Thirty-five days. It had been thirty-five very long days. "Goddamn, I missed you," said Tyson, and he gave his 944's steering wheel a loving caress. Punching the pedals, working the gearshift, the abrasive...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 14
**Chapter Fourteen** **Monday June 30, 2008** **10:28pm** Roger was in bed. Anessa was staying the night with a friend. Bella was nowhere to be seen. Tyson was sat alone at the couch of the TV room when his mother emerged from the upstairs hall,...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 10
**Chapter Ten** **Friday May 23, 2008** **12:08pm** The Infinity Care Center was the premier long-term care facility for retired folk in Sandy, offering topnotch services to less than a hundred highly-sought after beds. For nine years, Patricia had...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 26
**Chapter Twenty-six** **Sunday September 6, 2009** **2:05pm** The room was a ten- by eleven-foot box of darkness. A blackout curtain covered a three-foot window which ran alongside a queen-size bed. A lingerie dresser stood near the foot of the...
The Ghost Shepherd - Chapter 1
**Chapter One** **Monday, March 15, 2021** **1:41am** He could feel his whole self splitting in two—coldness, terrifying, seeping through the cracks—his body, twisting, curling, convulsing, sliding deeper and deeper into darkness, the...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 13
**Chapter Thirteen** **Saturday June 28, 2008** **10:40pm** The house was possessed by stillness, dark until Tyson, whirling a key ring 'round a clawed finger, stumbled across his father reclining in the upstairs television's luminescence. The...