The Purest Shade
_The snows that are older than history, The woods where the weird shadows slant; The stillness, the moonlight, the mystery, I've bade 'em good-by--_ _but I can't._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Robert W. Service, "The Spell of the Yukon" 11 Front Street...
The Missing Guidebook
_I have several memories of that time of my life in Virginia and for some reason they deal with death. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\__ Mark David Chapman Behold - _October._ ...
The Attack On Mount Silver (Pokémon Fanfiction)
There was diamond-dust in the sky - slivers of ice that danced in the wind, as the Sun began its final descent in the west. The view was incomparable - Mount Silver, holy mountain, the resting place of the gods of Kanto and Johto, where Hoenn and...
Wolfentraum: One
Under the cloud-murk he moved towards it until it shown above him, a sheer keep of fortified gold. _________ Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney Siegfried Stone wondered if history would record his every move these few days he would be in Roanoke...
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...
Bloom
_Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Vladimir Nabokov, _Mary_ When Dakota Tyree's mom, Lisa, who gave him the nickname _Cody_, was still alive, and his dad Teddy was...
The Dogs: Ask Now the Beasts
Are not these woodsMore free from peril than the envious court? _________ William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, Scene i The first time Bligh Lynch realized something about him was a little strange and that he was more than what he...
The Decaying Mall
When did this town become a mausoleum?_________ Luke Divers It is a well-known fact that Crossroads Mall in Roanoke, Virginia, was for many years in an advanced state of decay. Yet for one reason or another, the mall still...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode XVIII
When he returned to the apartment and opened the door, Andrew was met with an unexpectedly cute sight - Bligh, up against the arm of the couch, Cody on top of him with his head resting against his chest, arms around his waist, snuggled up, watching...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode XVII
Andrew's sleep for the rest of the night was, as it had been on the couch with Bligh, dreamless - for as much and as long as the past had haunted most every time he had shut his eyes these traumatic two days, it had, at last, for the first night he...