The Black Shepherd - Chapter 18
**Chapter Eighteen** **Monday July 21, 2008** **11:04am** "Ready?" The distinctive blend of canine odor and perfume clung to gray leather, and a small paw fell from a gearshift to press and stroke green mesh. "Yes." The answer rumbled from deep...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 17
**Chapter Seventeen** **Friday July 18, 2008** **11:04pm** Again, they were bundled together within the glow of the television--the house quiet beyond the fringe of artificial luminance, the house forgotten beyond the stinging scent of perfume and...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 16
**Chapter Sixteen** **Saturday July 5, 2008** **8:51am** The room was silent and sunlit, his body faint and fluctuant. While Firecrackers barked, bottle rockets hissed, exploded, Tyson lay awake, lay underneath the slight layers of his bedding and...
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 21
**Chapter Twenty-one** **Tuesday July 29, 2008** **1:58am** She had told him to wake up, to get his act together. She seemed to believe it was that it was his inhospitality which would expose their illicit game._She_ had told _him._ She knelt with...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 20
**Chapter Twenty** **Friday July 25, 2008** **9:52am** Patricia kicked days three and four of the otherworldly vacation off with continental breakfast and a cigarette, and she capped each night with several rounds of rough sex. It was a routine she...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 31
**Chapter Thirty-one** **Saturday September 27, 2014** **12:00pm** Her idea. She sat across the table, muzzle in her lap. The place: a high-backed booth in downtown Hollins, comfortably isolating with low-hung light fixtures casting islands of...
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 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...
Dana & Olivia
Olivia Medenwalt was the darling of the city of Ingram, the star of the high school volleyball team and the top volleyball prospect in the country. As an eighth grader, Olivia had led the state attackers in kills. Now, a freshman with a scholarship to...