The Ghost Shepherd - Chapter 4
**Chapter Four** **Monday, March 29, 2021** **3:47am** Fighting through thoughts all morning to keep from drowning in them. Too many to reason. Raining over him. Gathering towards a great, laughing, crying, shouting, shrieking blur....
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 11
**Chapter Eleven** **Saturday May 24, 2008** **11:05am** "Mom," said Tyson, standing at the edge of the kitchen. Patricia, only minutes awake, sifted through a cupboard in a light knit robe. "What?" she grumbled dryly, not bothering to look...
The Ghost Shepherd - Chapter 3
**Chapter Three** **Friday, March 26, 2021** **7:53pm** Her chest and shoulders burned and trembled. She bit down and snarled and pushed through her toes and shoved with her chest and arms, fighting a lethal weight off her before she...
The Ghost Shepherd - Epilogue
**Epilogue** **Friday, April 9, 2021** **11:24pm** Antonio Harding—his gal always called him “Nio"—should have been in bed. He should have been in bed an hour ago. He shouldn't have gone to the gym when he had work in the morning and...
The Ghost Shepherd - Chapter 2
**Chapter Two** **Monday, March 22, 2021** **6:45am** “Awaken!" sang the alarm clock, its shrill, pulsing cry sundering morning silence. “Awaken, for the day hath arri—!" Jocelyn went to punch the alarm clock and bounded back into...