Evolution Part I: Chapter Eleven
I was badly hurt after the fight. When the shepherd-lab finally removed his awesome bulk from my body, he and everyone else ignored me. I didn't dare to move because it hurt so much. My neck and my leg were bleeding freely, but I'd also been crushed...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Ten
I brooded on the thought of my stolen squirrel most of the night. I wasn't hard. I could hear the lab shepherd chewing greedily on the gristle of it like chewing gum on the other side of the yard. The sound of it made my blood boil. So much so that the...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Nine
To this day, I still don't know what possessed that squirrel to land right in the middle of a pen filled with dogs. It might have just been looking for food, or it might have been suicidal. I harbor a secret suspicion that it's even possible a human...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Eight
I didn't know it yet, but my diet had quite the opposite effect on my life than I'd intended. It, in fact, had set me on course to match with the very largest of dogs who lived in the yard. The humans never came out and said it (well, they might have,...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Seven
By the end of a week, the large bruise on my tummy had mostly cleared up and I was moving more easily. However, my wrenched paw took longer to heal, despite the fact that my lacerations had scabbed over nicely in less than a day; they wouldn't leave...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Six
I didn't roughhouse for a week after I'd suffered my defeat at the fangs of the brown lab. As for my relationship with my antagonist, it was little different than how it was before. He held no grudge against me nor I him. I showed him deference when...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Four
By the time I was eighteen weeks old, the pen had become as much a home to me as anywhere else I'd been in my life and in many ways it was far superior to the now fuzzy memories of mother and her sweet milk. I was feeling more and more adult, and that...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Two
For the betterment of my social and psychological wellbeing, the four dogs of the litter, including myself, were moved to a large communal kennel away from where the brooding bitches were housed individually. There, all the other male pups were housed,...
Evolution Part I: Chapter One
Humans put a lot of stock in "The Meaning of Life" or the search for what may be called the Ultimate Truth, or some such similar concept; they have a million terms for it. Some say that the meaning of existence is not to be found in mortal life and...
Into the Beast Pt. 2 of 2
The fall was much shorter than he was expecting. After a second's slide, the muscled walls slid tight around, the environment amazingly cramped compared to the spaciousness of the mouth. His feet stopped and then began to slip quickly down, compressed...
Into the Beast Pt. 1 of 2
The young knight ventured cautiously into the mouth of the great cave, the steady clip-clop of his somewhat-temperamental faithful steed and the fragile beam of light from his hooded lantern his only companions. He hitched up the 12-foot dragon lance...
A Night at the County Fair: Part I
A Night at the County Fair (Part I) By Shalion It was an amazing whirl of colored lights. Music, the chimes and bells and whistles of games, laughter and screams filled the night and brought life to things overpriced and typically of low...