In The Doghouse: Chapter Seven
Paul was nearly thirteen hours into the fourteen-hour journey that took him from Wyoming to Los Angeles. His energy stores were running on the fumes of the last energy drink he'd downed, the spent can lying on the passenger side floorboard amongst a...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Six
It had been four months since Blaine had nearly fainted from the reading on the drug store pregnancy test. She'd gone through no less than three more before an appointment with her OB/GYN confirmed that she was in fact pregnant. She was beginning to...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Five
When asked about the racing event previously discussed, Dr. Soto received a momentary widening of the eyes and an emphatic exhalation from the dog sitting across from her. Reid stretched his arms out over the back of the couch and leaned back into it...
Second Place
_"Yours sincerely, Thornton Blackwell."_ It was a regal sounding name, thought Riley Corbin. It was the kind of name a science-fiction author ought to have, pseudonym or not. A smile on his face, the Alsatian held the copy of _Second Place in the...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Four
Reid stood there, his face frozen in the same smile he'd worn the moment he reached out to shake her hand. Slowly, the corners wilted, and his affable grin turned into a queasy, borderline creepy display of his teeth. Vance blinked, and Lucy took on a...
The Pussy's Panties
The sky was milk white, broken only by towers of thick, black smoke that rose into the air above the battlegrounds of dystopia. Distant pops of gunfire could be heard calling over the buildings of the decaying, urban metropolis. Somewhere, something...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Three
Vance was no-billed. In light of the evidence and testimonies of DPE employees, the grand jury did not see fit to indict the pit bull on homicide charges. When the verdict was read, Vance sighed with a breath he'd been holding since he learned that...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Two
There were only so many potholes to be patched. Vance sighed. The front door of his house loomed ahead of him like the executioner's door. Blaine had seen the receipt, she knew exactly how much he'd paid for that new turbocharger, and he would...
In The Doghouse: Chapter One
Every day was a new start for Reid Travis. The sunny, mild, California mornings greeted him with easterly sunrises and fair weather to which he could complete his morning routine, which now no longer consisted of alcohol consumption before noontime...
In The Doghouse: Final Chapter
_One month later..._ _"Not a day goes by that I don't think about it."_ _ _ _ Reid sat on the couch in Dr. Soto's office as relaxed as he could be, his arms outstretched over the back of the overstuffed leather sofa. He wet his lips. Sighed....
In The Doghouse: Chapter Eighteen
Reid learned the difference between a grocery store and the emergency room that day. You didn't worry about finding a good parking spot when there was an emergency. Reid swung that Mustang into an awkward stop on the edge of the drive where...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Seventeen
Reid had taken making every day a new day to a whole new level. He turned and stretched in bed as the morning sunlight crept diffused by sheer curtains into a strange bedroom, with a strange ceiling, and a rather odd-feeling bed, as in, it was not...