Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 107
107 "Stop, don't shoot!!" Mateo shouted, nearly giving everyone a heart attack. Jonah certainly felt like his was beating somewhere around his throat now. "By the gods, Mat, what!?" Nick yelled, absolutely furious. He had almost dropped the crossbow...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 106
106 The question hung between them like the mist of their breath, lingering for a moment before being snatched away by the wind. _I couldn't have heard him right. There's no way._ The grip around his chin tightened and now he could feel the tips of...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 105
105 Jonah couldn't move, and that was good. Dean had moved, and now he was dead. Devin had moved, and now he was dead, too. Peter had moved, and guess what? He was just as dead as the others. Rufio and Eric and all their chums had moved, and now all...
Ander - Afterword
I started writing Ander on Saturday, June 16th, 2012. Today is Wednesday, April 11th, 2018, and my furry novel, my little "side project", the novel I have spent the last 6 years working on, is finally, finally done. 3 794 Pages. 1 180 922 Words. 3...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 10 (THE END)
10 "Kiana?" he whispered so softly he could barely hear his own voice. It somehow felt like any kind of noise in this place, in this moment, would be akin to sacrilege. He stepped inside and eased the door shut behind him, wincing at the click of the...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 9
9 Ander was vaguely aware of an awful throbbing in his fingers, but that seemed far away and unimportant. There was something else going on, something so fundamentally wrong it was able to reach him even through the shifting haze of shadows he had...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 8
8 - here!" Ander didn't open the front door so much as he _smashed_ it open and tumbled inside like a lunatic. Rufio and Hezzi were already there. Hezzi was pacing up and down in front of the fireplace, and Rufio was relaxing by the open window,...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 5
5 He could hear it up ahead, the sound of the river. It was so different to the roar of a year ago, the thunderous, roiling crash of muddy brown water sluicing through the earth. This sound reaching his ears now, through the trees and the shifting...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 4
4 Standing in the shade with his hands in pockets, James couldn't help but stare at the mountain for a while. It was so different in the summertime. No armour of frost and snow to cover its sheer peaks. No howling wind tearing through the cliffs. No...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 3
3 "Now that was some odd weather," James said, starry-eyed from the memory of those two rushing out of the chapel, not unlike the way he had rushed outside with Emily on their wedding day. The breeze whispered through the sycamore and a smattering of...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 2
2 This tiny little room at the back of the chapel had a massive full-length mirror running up the wall, and it was in front of this mirror that Kiana now stood, just as countless blushing brides before her had done, turning this way and that,...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 1
Chapter 7 Epilogue 1 The sun beat down from a clear blue sky, glinting off the weatherworn gravestones as they stood in their neat little rows. Away in the distance, cicadas chirped their repetitive songs as though in complaint of the baking...