The Black Shepherd - Chapter 10
**Chapter Ten** **Friday May 23, 2008** **12:08pm** The Infinity Care Center was the premier long-term care facility for retired folk in Sandy, offering topnotch services to less than a hundred highly-sought after beds. For nine years, Patricia had...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 28
**Chapter Twenty-eight** **Monday September 14, 2009** Devil horns. Spiked collars. Signs posted 'round clamoring halls declared "MONSTER MONDAY!" The kickoff to homecoming week. Also in the halls: cries of "Hell's Bells," sniggers and sideways...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 27
**Chapter Twenty-seven** **Sunday September 6, 2009** **4:39pm** She couldn't wait. Not for the night. Not for her friends. Other than sound of the television coming from the TV room, the house was quiet when Bella dropped her luggage by the...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 26
**Chapter Twenty-six** **Sunday September 6, 2009** **2:05pm** The room was a ten- by eleven-foot box of darkness. A blackout curtain covered a three-foot window which ran alongside a queen-size bed. A lingerie dresser stood near the foot of the...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 25
**Chapter Twenty-five** **Saturday September 5, 2009** **2:53pm** _WELCOME TO OHIO_ The greeting went by as a flash of green and white, and Bella tried to recall when she had last left the state of Indiana. Her parents had never been world...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 24
**A year has passed...** **Chapter Twenty-Four** **Friday August 14, 2009** **10:58pm** Pop radio. Booze. Friday night. A shop just beyond the edge of town buzzed with the ambience of thirty-some inebriated teens. Sophomores, juniors and seniors,...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 23
**Chapter Twenty-three** **Thursday August 14, 2008** **9:58am** The last month had ripped apart everything Tyson had ever known, and by summer's end, his life would become entirely unrecognizable. He considered the looming changes underneath the...
The Black Shepherd - Epilogue
**Epilogue** **Wednesday July 4, 2018** **3:36pm** Dandelion-gold winked through bright-green summer grass around a red-brick corner house in Sandy, Indiana. Along with the tickle of a refreshing breeze were the faraway reports of firecrackers and...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 34
**Chapter Thirty-four** **Sunday October 12, 2014** **12:41pm** Things started happening very fast. He was in a shirt and shoes with the Glock stuffed down a shorts pocket. He was ducking out of the patio door into daylight. He was in the parking...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 33
**Chapter Thirty-three** **Friday October 10, 2014** **6:51pm** "I remember you talking about him," Roger said in a voice loaded with skepticism. He frowned at Anessa as they walked a path parallel to one of theOpen Prairie Country Club's par...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 32
**Chapter Thirty-two** **Saturday October 4, 2014** **1:53pm** _Hurry up, time!_ Anessa paced her dorm room, hoping to exercise the unease she had been fighting in lectures and study sessions throughout the week. She knew it was silly to be...
The Black Shepherd - Chapter 9
**Chapter Nine** **Friday May 16, 2008** **8:00am** _Come on. Almost there._ His heart pounded against his ribs. His mouth hung open, panting hard as he willed himself down the homestretch of what was becoming his daily run. He kept his eyes on...