Fire Branded Leather: Life on the Wild Side
# Chapter 9: Life on the Wild Side It was well past midnight by the time Will fell face first into his bed. He never even bothered to pull the shirt from his back. When next he opened his eyes there was a glimmer of light on the distant...
Headstones and Heresy
Chapter 13: Headstones and HeresyJune 6, 1988 04:00 HoursWest Woodburn, Northumberland, North East England It was four o'clock in the morning, and I sat in an upstairs suit at the Duck and the Crown inn. Coalburn had been amongst the people who...
Cold Trailing: Longhorn
# Chapter 5: Longhorn At long last Will made it once again back onto the street. Rebecca was nowhere in sight. He had to hand it to the woman, she could move when she wanted to, even weighed down as she'd been with enough papers to choke a horse....
The Scent of Flowers
# Chapter 7: The Scent of Flowers We still did everything we could to leave a trail for Jon – which wasn't much – as we headed west. I'll admit our pace picked up with Rebecca looking after me. I'd...
Never, Ever, Take a Government Contract
# Chapter 11: Never, Ever, Take a Government Contract For a government institution, the police were a surprisingly efficient group of dogs in their little branch station. It still took us all day mind you, and the forms could have well buried me...
Cold Trailing: Some things Never Change
# Chapter 3: Some things Never Change Over the next month Will fought to find an upside to the quake. Tried to find a silver lining to the devastation that was crumbling the city around him. He kept telling himself that something good had to come...
Fire Branded Leather: Ad in the Paper
# Chapter 2: Ad in the Paper The light slanted through the half closed blinds to fall upon Will's face. He hadn't even bothered to drag himself off the couch last night. Why go to bed? There was no one there waiting for him anyway. Moving...
Howling In Public
# Chapter 12: Howling In Public The three of us had to get buzzed into the jeweller's store. The only way in was through a double set of doors that looked like they just as well could have been airlocks. The reason for their security was...
Another Day, Another Broken Bone
# Chapter 9: Another Day, Another Broken Bone I came around staring into one of those tiled florescent ceiling lights that you see in some expensive public buildings. That's nice; I want to look at something else now. Problem was, I couldn't. ...
Fire Branded Leather: Rescue and Recovery
# Chapter 6: Rescue and Recovery Will's alarm went off the next morning. The reinforced, steel clock bounced when Will hit it. It kept ringing even after it had rolled to a stop in the corner of the room. Will opened his eyes and stared at the...
Fire Branded Leather: Smooth As Butter
# Chapter 12: Smooth As Butter Cold. Cold and dark. Far more ran through Will's mind as the blackness engulfed him, but those were the few coherent thoughts that fought their way to the surface. His one arm was wrapped around the two...
Claw marks
# Chapter 8: Claw marks The world was still dark when I awoke, but that was mostly because I couldn't raise the effort to lift the lead weights that were my eyelids. What I could make out were the scents of woodsmoke, antiseptic... and her. Oh...