Nighthawks
NIGHTHAWKS On a warm spring night, fresh and fragrant with the scent of cherry blossoms, which intermingled with the more artificial scents of car exhaust and cigarette smoke, Diego Redfield was going into a restaurant, to dine alone. He had been...
The Snake Charmer's Tale
THE SNAKE CHARMER'S TALE Tushar Prasad, a young Indian jackal typically of a jovial disposition, was seated rather despondently in the market of Nairobi, British East Africa Protectorate, on a wet March evening in 1912. He had escaped becoming...
'A Light That Never Goes Out'
A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT "Do you ever get the feeling that we wolves have become anachronistic?" Lord Solomon Sykes-Ryland asked Luther Stone on a sunny August morning in 1914. They were sitting at a little garden table in front of a little...
Feels Like Home
**Feels Like Home** When my twin brother Basil and I were children we were as inseparable as all twins are or ought to be, always together, sharing every drop of life, keeping nothing from one another, and letting never a day pass without...
On Our Last Date
ON OUR LAST DATE By Colin Leighton Most people remembered the events of May 1913 because it was the last time all Europe's heads of state met in the same place before the Great War. In that sense it represented for them one last example of the...
CANIDITY: Chapter Four
CHAPTER FOUR I smelled and heard the visitor long before I saw him. It was difficult to say how long I hid under the desk; it could have been minutes, or hours. I was losing my ability to tell time, at least I no longer had any concept of what...
CANIDITY: Chapter Three
CANIDITY A serial story by Colin Leighton CHAPTER THREE [day six] When I awoke, I was in agony. My face was swelling, straining, bursting, coming apart. At first it was so incredibly awful that I tore at it with my hands, prying at it with my...
CANIDITY: Chapter Two
Candity A serial story by Colin Leighton CHAPTER TWO [day two] The next morning I woke with what had to be the worst case of stomach flu I had ever experienced. I'd felt fine when going to bed the night before, but somewhere after 3am (I...
CANIDITY: Chapter One
CANIDITY A serial story by Colin Leighton CHAPTER ONE [the day before] Wiser men than I have written that one ought not to judge a book by its cover, or to gage an individual's value entirely by one's first impression of them. Now I don't mean...
Identity: Cast of Characters
CAST OF CHARACTERS: PRIMARY CHARACTERS _Ned Parker_; Wolf; Rookie cop at San Fernando Metro Homicide _Garrett Dyckert_; Coyote; Actor _Scarlett Lewis_; Coyote; Ned's partner at SF Metro _Olympia Rogan_; Wolf; British socialite _Mikey Ross_;?...
Identity: Final Chapter
CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN WILLISTON The prostitute was a white ermine who called herself Wanda, although Captain George Williston doubted that it was her real name. These whores always had some fancy name for themselves, which they seemed to think...
Identity: Chapter Fifty-Six
CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX NED "Come on, come on" they teased. "Show us the gold..." Scarlett's ears tipped back in shy embarrassment, but her muzzle opened in a crack of a smile too, as she held out her paw. The intricate diamond sparkled in the...