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 Dogs: Hath A Familiar Spirit
**July 15th 1877, Childers Street, Tempest, West Virginia** _Anyone who has ever lived in West Virginia, or even travelled through the state, can easily see what an ideal place it would be for ghosts._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Ruth Ann...
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...