Chapter 13 - Interrogation
Interrogation The entire trip to the police station, I found myself trying to look out the small window at the back to see what was going on outside. I was feeling quite claustrophobic, and that wasn't really helping. I didn't...
Memorial to a Coyote
The beach in Northern France was so quiet and so serene, a polar opposite of that day decades ago. This was Memorial Day for Nathan Calhoun and for the first time in decades Mr. Calhoun, the elderly coyote, grey in his muzzle, saw the beach which he in...
Countdown
This is the day you've been waiting for. Your name is David Young, the tiger who will lead America against the Soviets in this all-important Cold War space race. And you couldn't sleep at all the night before. Though you had untill 4:30 to sleep, you...
Spindrift
Adrian had spent much of his time looking outside the window of his home in Everett- it was a beautiful view of the Pacific that he enjoyed. On days of sunshine, the wolf would go outside and dip his feet into the inviting waters and feel the crisp...
The Lemonade Stand - Ch.1 (Read description first)
"Hmmm." I studied my ceiling with great consideration. It seemed to be as dark and dank as the rest of my shitty loft. I looked around the stark one room apartment and tried to visualize it being anything but a shithole with a bed and clock. No such...
Himalaya
Daniel could remember when he first started- it was at base camp early in the morning. Daniel Jenner and his tiger guide Tenzing Norgay III together breathed sighs of relief when they reached Camp IV, 6,065 metres (19,000 ft.) above sea level. Beyond...
Vapor Trails
The bird could see all the foolishness of air travel. Earthbound species, not blessed with wings or the ability to hover in midair were being charged for the truly wonderful experience that he and his avian brethren could enjoy for absolutely nothing....
Subdivisions
Outside of every major city, you will find them. Call them what you will bedroom communities, suburbs, subdivisions and I know there's a good chance that many of you readers live there. Startinbg in Levittown, New Jersey shortly after the end of the...
Chemistry
"Class, I want you to pour just a little bit of the phosphor into the water to dilute it- for safety reasons, then I want you to pour the phosphorized water into the Erlemeyer flask marked number two.and tell me what happens. And I want you all to wear...
Joyland
"Mom, why do I feel so weak all the time" Daniel said to his mother, a lioness who could not restrain tears as she told her son, who was not long for this world about the congenital leukemia he had. At times, Marisa would blame herself for her boy's...
On Seven Hills...
In his mind, Daniel Barbarossa could hear the sounds of trumpets and returning generals' triumphs as he came to his wife's hometown. The wolf was respected here as he would be- the wolf had a special bond with Roma as he would truly understand later....
Quandro Llegare Al Bohio? (When Is my Return Home?)
Life had been hard for the old wolf Eliades from the hard-scrabble, farm province of Camaguey his entire life. His early years were filled with subsistence farming as were many other poor citrus farmers in the region when the despotic ruler Fulgencio...