Like many modern tract homes, Kara’s garage was drywalled and left half finished by the builders, so it was impossible to see what, if anything, was up there. To be safe, I drew one of my Glocks and backed away from the sound, and then used my free hand to throw a wrench across the garage. No soo...
That he was a lycanthrope, I now had little doubt. The creature I’d seen just a few hours prior was like nothing I’d ever laid eyes on previously, but it matched every description of a werewolf that I’d ever heard. Besides that, it knew I was watching it kill that punter, and made a point to let ...
Lucky for me, this settlement also had what passed for a doctor, a midwife who had a great deal of experience treating trauma and gunshot wounds during the Great War. She was also good with herbs and whatnot, which made her a triple threat. I stopped in to see her on the way to the Scalded Dog, a...
Maybe it was the Native American in me that I got from my mom’s side, but I felt closer to God out in nature than I ever did in church. Mom was Catholic and dad was Protestant, so I spent a lot of time at church growing up. Church didn’t stick, but the faith did. Call it superstition, or just wis...
It was no picnic. There were multiple deep tissue injections, bone marrow taps, spinal taps; I soon felt like a voodoo doll that’d been left to the attentions of a sadist witch doctor with a needle fetish. Captain Perez seemed to enjoy the process, and it made me wonder what I’d gotten myself int...