Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 31 of 37
**~ Chapter 31 ~** Colins Avenue, where Kat and Tiffany lived, was a shaded boulevard lined with oaks and elms. Most of the shaded parking spots on the street were taken. I didn't blame the drivers, I could still feel the difference between...
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 5 of 37
~ **Chapter 5 ~** _Cdnce1282 has signed in (8:22 pm)_ **Aarbo4vr** (8:24 pm): Hey **Aarbo4vr** (8:24 pm): it's Aaron **Cdnce1282** (8:24 pm): Hi! You were able to make out my chicken-scratch, then? :P **Aarbo4vr** (8:25 pm): lol, yeah....
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 36 of 37
**~ Chapter 36 ~** Moonlight shone through the cloudy panes of glass stories above the main floor of the warehouse. There was no color to the light. No coolness or haunting etherealness. Everything was ambient gray. Towers of boxes blended with...
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 23 of 37
**~ Chapter 23 ~** I always hated going to Saint Catherine's. Hospitals, as well meaning as they are, just aren't a friendly place to me. I know they try to make the hallways more inviting with warm, pastel colors and paintings done by local...
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 28 of 37
**~ Chapter 28 ~** "....and the insurance company is okay with it?" Mom asked Dad. "Yeah, apparently," Dad shuffled through a small pile of bills, notices, and letters on the dinner table. Steam rose from an enchilada on his plate; Dad dug in....
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 24 of 37
**~ Chapter 24 ~** _Bbzzzzt......_ _Bbzzzzzt....._ It was a couple of days from my passing out at the toilet in Becky's hospital bathroom. Mom and Dad had assumed it was from the stress of seeing Becky's condition. I didn't expand on...
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 25 of 37
**~ Chapter 25 ~** The line between late summer and early autumn was blurring. The days were still as balmy as ever but the nights were cooling. The nights were still too warm for shoes or long-sleeved shirts, but the air felt less oppressive...
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 21 of 37
~ **Chapter 21 ~** Infinitá had closed for a couple of days. In that time-span, I hadn't really talked to Aaron. I knew what Becky meant when she told me to apologize and tell Aaron what I was feeling, but nerves got the better of me and I shied...
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 22 of 37
**~ Chapter 22 ~** "Aaron? Hon?" I knocked on his door. Though Kat's words had assuaged, a larger part of me was still nervous and unsure how to proceed. A shadow, a click, and the door opened. Aaron smiled tiredly and hugged me with a soft...
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 14 of 37
**~ Chapter 14 ~** "Hey Hon, it's Cade. It's about twenty past eight and I was just wondering how you're doing. Lemme know if you're on your way or if you decided to stay home again, 'kay?" I closed my cell phone, making sure that the vibrate...
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 8 of 37
~ **Chapter 8 ~** Nothing. I took a long gulp from my water bottle that I had just refilled and looked onto the street below me. Pallid, orange light from the streetlamps below hung in ambience. Cars passed by below me, slow. I perked my ears...
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 7 of 37
~ **Chapter 7 ~** The atmosphere at Infinitá was same as usual except for one detail: Cade and I were party animals! As corny as that sounds, we danced and drank and sweated and touched until we could do no more but collapse upon each other in...