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 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...
A Bronze Rising: Fresh Meat
My weight caused my talons to sink deep into the soft turf as I flapped my wings madly. It was a difficult task to land without using one's front legs. Still flapping to keep my body upright, I lowered the young man with a single hand to the ground,...
A Bronze Rising: Kidnapping
...human. Yes, that's what they were called. I circled lower and lower sacrificing the height I had taken from the thermal. It gave me time to decide which direction from which to strike. I was well practiced in hiding myself on my approach. The trees...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Thirty
Summer was definitely over now and the sky remained permanently overcast with light rain coming on and off without warning. It was sometimes miserable sitting on the other side of the fence outside the other pack, but I stuck with my self-assigned...
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 Twenty-four
I'm not sure why I was so hesitant. Perhaps it was all the strange things I'd experienced since stepping out of the yard for the first time. But right then the thought of another pack of dogs being around the corner frightened me more than it enthused...
A Bronze Rising: Spirited Away
"M-me? Powerful?" said the boy in a soft, frail voice. His knees were shaking with the cold. "I... I'm not sure what that would even mean." A tiny grin tickled the corner of my mouth. Perhaps the boy was not a stupid as I'd previously guessed....
Evolution Part I: Chapter Thirty-three
Several days passed and I still did not return to the other tribe of dogs. Pink Nose still returned with the content of his lessons, however, after a single night's peace, the chocolate lab returned bearing more questions from the opposite pack....
Evolution Part I: Chapter Thirty-two
As I watched the behemoth canine toil ahead of me under the weight of his own body, I had to admit to myself that there was not a lack of some pleasure to be had in seeing that flesh wobble about when it was usually so inert. It was the grey twilight...
A Bronze Rising: The Offer
By the harsher scent, I could tell that the human was male. However, the scent of the human male was as meek as a drop of milk diluted in a bucket of water compared to the musk of another male dragon which capable, by pure biology, of filling me with...
A Bronze Rising: Scenting
The human was so long in responding I began to wonder if the creature was even capable of speech. Where there, in fact different breeds of human as there were dragons? Perhaps I'd picked up a variety with no more sense than a rutting pig. Oh well,...