Identity: Chapter Forty-Seven
CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN MIKEY At that moment the crocodile was feeling very smart indeed. Mikey's hotel room had evidentially previously sheltered a female guest, because the room smelled strongly of perfumes, so much that his nose twitched and he...
Identity: Chapter Twenty-Six
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX MIKEY Mikey awoke with a shriek, panting madly, fur on end, eyes bulging. Gasping for breath, he gripped the sheets so tightly he thought he'd rip holes in them, sitting up straight in bed so he could stare into the darkness,...
Identity: Chapter Twenty-Eight
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT MIKEY The white Prius was a gift from Joey's grandmother. She'd died two years earlier, and the car had been sitting unused in a car lot since then, as Joey felt it was a yuppie car more suited for suburban families than for a...
The White Robe: Epilogue
Caitlin sat on the couch in the warm beam of sunlight that filtered through the living room window. The bandages were finally off, and the stitches had come out. She was healing nicely, at least on the physical side. The nightmares still came, and she...
Identity: Chapter Fifty-Three
CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE MIKEY Mikey was in a nightmare, but it was a living one. The wolf was saying that his family had been murdered, but that couldn't be so; that was only the dream, the reoccurring nightmare, but if so, how did the wolf know about...
Identity: Chapter Fifty-One
CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE NED Garrett did not answer Ned's call, but this failed to dampen the wolf's spirits. The drive back to SF Metro headquarters was thick with rampant tail-wagging, long-muzzled grinning, and irresistible relief. Finally, the...
Identity: Chapter Fifty-Four
CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR NED The fox had gone into a trance or something, muttering incoherent nonsense and whimpering quietly to himself, paws gesturing, so after a moment of that, Ned had started edging himself towards Garrett, who, the silly yote,...
Identity: Chapter Sixteen
CHAPTER SIXTEEN NED "Please tell me this didn't actually happen" Lennox said. Ned wanted to look away, to look at anything other than the lieutenant's expression of disappointment, whether that be out the window, where it was foggy yet again,...
Crime Scene
_ Tuesday, April 2 Winchester Heights_ A lot of things may be said to swarm. Bees do it, as the old song goes. So do football fans at the stadium gates. Groupies at a rock concert. Relatives at a will reading. The swarm that I see most...
Identity: Chapter Eighteen
CHAPTER EIGHTTEEN MIKEY Joey wanted to go out that night, so Mikey had relented into going to dinner at a steakhouse called the Bunkhouse, which according to one of Joey's friends at the hospital, served decent prime rib. The place was crazy busy,...
Identity: Chapter Thirty
CHAPTER THIRTY ALANA Alana Wittmore had purchased the Summer Fun Inflatable Swimming pool for approximately $379.99, including tax. Technically it was probably an excessive acquisition, considering that the Wittmores had only intended to be in San...
Identity: Chapter Thirty-Six
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX NED Ned could not help but notice the fleeting flicker of hope that passed across Garrett's face after he'd answered Ned's knock. He hadn't even been sure the coyote would be home at this hour, if at all. He could have been off...