Evolution Part I: Chapter Seventeen
A week after the shepherd-lab returned, Pink Nose and I were beginning to share simple conversations. He'd mastered the basics and was steadily gaining vocabulary. Watching him learn was probably the best thing for Terrier-face, Fatty and the...
A Bronze Rising: Battle, Such as it is
The boy had been brutalized, that much was clear. The sight of the bruises on his face and arms, his once crisp uniform torn in several places and his hands bound to the saddle of the horse he rode made my fire bladder hot. The boy was my property and...
New Alveri Chronicles: Darzhja (Chapter 1)
**The New Alveri Chronicles:** **Darzhja** By Shalion, Brian, and Goran Special Thanks to: Geekjosh Chapter 1 The thick armored tail slammed into the side of my head and I quickly found myself in the fight of my life thus far in my relatively...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Twenty-three
Not wanting to press Lopside too much at a time, I left him and decided to give myself some time to spend with my brother. He greeted me fondly with a "Hi Topsy!" and a pounce against my chest. He licked my face and I licked his head back. He whipped...
A Bronze Rising: The Gate
Tobias approached the front gate following the wall to his left. He felt foolish tramping through the forest undergrowth in his father's war regalia. How many people had his father killed while wearing this? 'None,' Tobias chided himself, 'It's a...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Sixteen
And so terrier-face and fatty became my betas. A plus side to dog politics was that once everyone knew who was in charge, people readily accepted the roles assigned to them and there was only very infrequently any bad blood between us. Promoting the...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Fifteen
I went to go lie down in the shade under the canopy over the fountain. Several dogs lay nearby, eager to lick the wounds covering my body. They were already trying to worm their way to better positions in the hierarchy by subservience to the new Alpha....
Evolution Part I: Chapter Thirty-five
\*\*\* That was the end of discussion about talking to humans. It was also the end of Fatty's dreams of nightly dumpster runs. The leanest dog left in the pack now was Terrier-face and he was nearly double Spinner's weight. He admitted freely that...
A Bronze Rising: Smoke and Fire
The boy sat on a boulder, the saddle where his hands were bound out before him and between his legs. I walked stiffly over, the bolts where they pierced my flesh stung more now that the battle rage was passing. I didn't ask if he was injured because...
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 Twenty-six
Lopside stared down at the scribbles on the slip of paper on the ground. We were all amazed at the unmistakable similarity between the symbol on the paper and one of three that Lopside has scribed in front of us, but he was looking at the scrap as if...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Nineteen
I awoke several hours later in the middle of the night. The storm was still raging outside and the area around the portal to the house was damp and abandoned. It looked like it was going to go on the rest of the night, but I had to whizz so I braved...