Fire Branded Leather: Fire-breather
# Chapter 5: Fire-breather There was a smile on Will's lips when he woke the next morning. Even with a day of work ahead of him it never faltered. The walk home last night had been an embarrassment, but it had been worth it. Even now he laid...
Fire Branded Leather: Night Life
# Chapter 4: Night Life His knuckles never reached the wood. "Good evening, Will." Anne stood before him, as perfect and precise as he remembered her. The black dress she wore looked at first the same as yesterday. It took Will a long...
Fire Branded Leather:Putting Out Fires
# Chapter 3: Putting Out Fires The next thing Will knew he was fighting back a cloying darkness. Somewhere, not so far away, came the sound of a great battle. A shiver running down him from nose to tail, Will rolled over. And entered...
Fire Branded Leather: Ad in the Paper
# Chapter 2: Ad in the Paper The light slanted through the half closed blinds to fall upon Will's face. He hadn't even bothered to drag himself off the couch last night. Why go to bed? There was no one there waiting for him anyway. Moving...
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...
Inbreeding
# Chapter 8: Inbreeding _June 10'th 1988 07:15 Hours The Kennel, London, England_ Taking a step back from the door, I readied myself for when the Dog would step in. He simply stood there. At long last the door tentatively opened. ...
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...
Library Card
# Chapter 6: Library Card _July 2'nd 1993 22:00 Hours The Kennel, London, England_ I spent the evening on the Isle of Wight, under the hospitality of the local Police Dogs. They provided me with one of their boxes to sleep in as the coastal...
A Private Breeder
# Chapter 5: A Private Breeder _June 9'th 1988 04:30 Hours Somewhere beneath London, England_ I came to slowly, like surfacing from a deep, dark pool. It felt as though someone had stuffed my head with cotton batten, like I was awakening from...
Up The Drainpipe
# Chapter 4: Up The Drainpipe _June 8'th 1988 09:00 Hours London, England_ The first thing to come to me was the scent. It was human. More than that, it was a familiar human, one that promised safety. Slowly, I opened my eyes. It took...
Quiet Halls and Softer Footfalls
# Chapter 3: Quiet Halls and Softer Footfalls _July 1'st 1993 14:00 Hours The Kennel, London, England_ My thick leather jacket creaked around me as I stepped off my bike, the soft purr of its engine fading into the omnipresent hum of London...
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...