Chapter 7 - A New Ability
A thunderous roar, ten times stronger than her pistols, shattered the night, as an eighty-eight-milliliter shell tore through the air at two-thousand-and-five-hundred meters per second.
Methuselah
Alex's father had really died about eighty years ago and all of his money came from work he had done over his life already.
Panda Puppy Action: Chapter 9
So with us being together we make a grand total of eighty thousand!" potter chimes in, " wow you know how to add now." lorina rolls her eyes, " whatever." " well your two's combined income is eighty thousand that is my annual income."
Looking in the Mirror
# Chapter 9: Looking in the Mirror _July 3'rd 1993 21:00 Hours London, England_ I slept in a hotel that evening. The idea of spending a night in the Kennel sickened me. The hotel was not high class. It was, at best, middling, the type of...
Brothers and Sisters
# Chapter 7: Brothers and Sisters _June 9'th 1988 20:45 Hours The Kennel, London, England_ I wasn't sure where he'd found it, but Handler Llyal offered us some day old Chinese takeout. The little paper boxes even had the traditional metal...
Cobblestones and Threadbare Shirts
# Chapter 2: Cobblestones and Threadbare Shirts _June 8'th 1988 02:00 Hours The Kennel, London, England_ For just an instant I hung in the air, two stories above the blacktop. Thousands of razor sharp shards of glass sparkled around me in the...
Examination
"eighty one point four two," the lead examiner said at last. "congratulations, forty-seven, you are now a police dog." there was no cheer, there was no standing ovation.
A Good Old Copper
# Chapter 11: A Good Old Copper _June 11'th 1988 13:00 Hours London, England_ When next I woke my head rested on something soft. I opened my eyes to see the bottom of a muzzle. Sixty was staring off into the distance. "Good Dog," he...
The Good Doctor
# Chapter 10: The Good Doctor _June 11'th 1988 03:00 Hours The Kennel, London, England_ Sixty and I stared at each other as the last of the screams died away over the wireless. "What has happened, Brother?" Sixty whispered. His words were...
Airport
Eli giggled, "it's like, eighty miles from here, right?" "no no..." shane laughed, "it's eighty kilometres. that's a whole other thing..." eli sighed softly and rested his head on shane's shoulder as they approached the conveyor belt.
AC Troubles
Early spring doesn't usually bring to mind highs in the eighties and muggy, blindingly bright days, but this spring was proving to be an annoying exception.
After Armageddon Chapter 2
The speedometer reads eighty, eighty-five, ninety, ninety-five, one hundred. seeing my house coming up fast i slow down and stop outside of the house. will and i get hector out of the back of the truck and carry him inside.