A Home Away From Home - Chapter 1: Alone In a Sea of People
Bard college was on summer break, and his roommate, along with the other twenty thousand or so students were off enjoying their summer, or visiting family, or simply doing something, anything other than sticking around campus, aside from him and a few others
The Four Maidens
It shines like the solstice of summer... it falls like leaves in autumns... and it rests like snow of the winter... the first maiden conducts in her flowery dress the song the birds sing carried by the breeze.
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 37 of 37 - End
**~ Chapter 37 ~** The hours that followed my escape up the tunnel, hell the days and weeks afterward are fading from my memory. Time goes, I grow, memories repose. Kat and Tiffany were waiting in the club. I said something to them, but I've...
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 36 of 37
**~ Chapter 36 ~** Moonlight shone through the cloudy panes of glass stories above the main floor of the warehouse. There was no color to the light. No coolness or haunting etherealness. Everything was ambient gray. Towers of boxes blended with...
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 35 of 37
**~ Chapter 35 ~** _I loved him. Then I killed him._ The tunnel was cold and silent. Lights were placed a dozen yards apart creating alternating patterns of bright and dim. My panting echoed down the hall as I ran. \*\*\*\* ...
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 33 of 37
You're a special person and i'm honored to have gotten to know you this summer._ _i want you to know that whatever happens, i made my decision myself. don't blame yourself for anything.
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 31 of 37
**~ Chapter 31 ~** Colins Avenue, where Kat and Tiffany lived, was a shaded boulevard lined with oaks and elms. Most of the shaded parking spots on the street were taken. I didn't blame the drivers, I could still feel the difference between...
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 30 of 37
**~ Chapter 30 ~** Infinitá was packed this evening. I sipped a drink and watched the crowds from my seat at the booths. It allowed me to oversee a good portion of Infinitá's first floor while remaining unobtrusive. There were a few people I was...
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 29 of 37
**~ Chapter 29 ~** I didn't have a car to take me to Chesim this time, but at least the day was hovering around a comfortable seventy degrees; actually a somewhat warm day after a cold spell. I chewed on a couple of mints and settled in for a...
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 28 of 37
**~ Chapter 28 ~** "....and the insurance company is okay with it?" Mom asked Dad. "Yeah, apparently," Dad shuffled through a small pile of bills, notices, and letters on the dinner table. Steam rose from an enchilada on his plate; Dad dug in....
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 26 of 37
**~ Chapter 26 ~** "I finished my drink! You're supposed to get me a new drink _before_ I finish!" "There's sour cream in my rice, take my plate back!" "Get us more napkins! How come whenever we come here we never get enough napkins!" It was...
Those Bygone Dog-Star Days - Chapter 25 of 37
**~ chapter 25 ~** the line between late summer and early autumn was blurring. the days were still as balmy as ever but the nights were cooling.