Identity: Chapter Six
CHAPTER SIX NED Hugo Sota had been gay. That had to mean something, Ned thought, as he and Scarlett did a final comb of the beach for other evidence. No, he hadn't had a boyfriend, the otters had said, but he _was_ gay; he had said so on several...
Identity: Chapter Three
CHAPTER THREE NED Lennox listened carefully while Ned and Scarlett transcribed the details of Conrad Fincher's death, her black-tipped grey ears swung forward attentively. "Very well then" she ran a paw over her mane, which was tied back...
Identity: Chapter Two
CHAPTER TWO MIKEY Mikey breathed calmly as he took another bite of the cherry-flavoured shave ice he'd purchased at a little corner stand several blocks outside the borders of the Sullivan Heights community. Getting in hadn't been hard. The whole...
Parenthesis
**Parenthesis** If you are, as I am, both a writer and an avid reader, there are two habits you're likely to form. The first is that you'll start looking at all the people in your life as being characters in a story, and will find in them...
At Night, He Walks
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The Days and the Seasons
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