Presto - Chapter 6
_If they never know for sure, they can't make judgments_. Arden walked to the window to look out of the box he lived in, and as he had for years, saw nothing but the wall of the building next to his. _A fitting metaphor, no_? All boxed in,...
Presto - Chapter 2
Bright and early Saturday morning, Arden pulled his old car up to the curb in a quiet cul-de-sac in the Valley. The heat had abated somewhat in the last couple of days in most of Los Angeles, but evidently the Valley wasn't given the forecast. He...
Presto - Chapter 1
Cattle calls are a fabled phenomenon in Hollywood. They are the great equalizer, where starlet and stevedore alike have an equal shot at stardom. That's what the entertainment magazines like to portray, anyway. In reality, cattle calls...
Presto - Prologue
Arden leaned back in the uncomfortable wooden desk chair, and pinched the bridge of his muzzle, rubbing the corners of his tired, bloodshot eyes. The fur around them was slightly matted, as it always was when he had been crying - something he seemed to...
Presto - Chapter 10
_It was almost a year before I saw him again_. Fresh tears ran down the wolf's muzzle as he shifted on his rickety wooden throne - king of his castle and all the hundred-and-fifty square feet of bachelor's apartment that he surveyed. Pages and pages of...
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