The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode VI
It was November - the sky was leaden. Blowing through the air was a cold mist, not quite rain, not quite fog, in this golden-grey world where all the trees stood, half-naked in their autumnal mourning cloaks - vanishing leaves. A Gothic picture -...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode V
West Virginia around October - Halloween - cloaks itself with an eldritch and primeval majesty: every forest shaded night-black with phantasmic ghouls that lurk by every shadowy tree; all the melancholy places - the overgrown railroad tracks, the...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode IV
The Sun was in the last throes of setting, throwing ancient, sacred fire onto the horizon in vermillion exquisiteness - Andrew and Bligh stood watch outside the gas station to see it, the same place where Andrew had met Cody, in almost the same...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode III
The next day, Thursday, Cody and Andrew waited for Bligh on the balcony of their apartment, seated in two plastic patio chairs they had bought together some months ago. The evening was very slowly setting in, the Sun's glorious performance earlier...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode II
The morning after, Andrew awoke, as he often did, to the sensation of warm, smooth skin pressed his against his mouth. As he opened his eyes slowly, he moved from Cody's shoulder to nuzzle his ear. "Good morning..." he whispered gently. "Mmm...?"...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Preface
This book could very well be real - and you would never know it. The places in it are, with one salient exception, true - the people are people you've probably met. It does not take place in some faux-Florida, some faux-America - not at all. Read...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode I
The night before everything changed, Andrew Lightfoot once again could not sleep - he sat, curled against the arm of his couch in his living room, staring into the dark half-mirror of his flatscreen television. It was some ungodly hour of the...
Wolfentraum: The Prologue
One man will always be left alive to tell the story. _________Hannah Arendt, Eichmann In Jerusalem Andrew Lightfoot had just turned eighteen that October when his father took him to Roanoke for a gala charity event, to be attended by the...
Nervous Boys
The innocent mansion of a panther's heart! It crumbles, tick-tick time drags it in Till now his arteries lag and now they start Reverence with the frigid gusts of sin. _________ Allen Tate, "Idiot" Caleb was his sin and Caleb was soul. ...
The Boy Who Loved Her
When these lips shall never more Press a kiss upon thy brow But lie cold and still in death Will you love me then as now? _________ The Carter Family, "Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?" One night a few weeks before the season began at Smith...
On the Cusp - Chpt. 6: Changes
Many, many thanks to aux chiens for beta-reading and making me go back and add things that have only made this chapter better! i hope you guys enjoy it and please let me know in the comments what you think!
On the Cusp - Chpt. 5: Working Theory
And many thousands of thanks to my friend, aux chiens for his immensely important help in making me not seem like an absolute idiot when writing smut! casey had started yesterday with his usual schedule of self-doubt, denial, and repression.