Home became, finally, something of an impossibility for me and I would go to stay with relatives for extended periods of time. By the time I was eleven I had stayed with several uncles, my grandmother, and an old Norwegian bachelor farmer who thought God lived in the haymo...
But Brian took a minute to scan the map once more and do some mental calculating, and it didn’t come up too terrible. Say it was a hundred miles by river. When they’d landed they’d come down next to where the river left the lake, and Brian had watch...
There was a sudden crash to his side—so fast he hadn’t heard any preliminary movement—and a whitetail doe flew out of the brush to his right. She was a full eight feet in the air when she left the brush and billowing from her eyes were clouds of something that resembled smoke. Later, when he had ...
“No, you have to stay,” Brian tried to tell her. Then held out his hand and said more firmly, “Stay!” But the dog had gotten to her feet, and, still favoring her wounded side, had tried to follow Brian out of camp. Finally Brian took the anchor line...
Slicing deep into him with hate. The Secret. He had been riding his ten-speed with a friend named Terry. They had been taking a run on a bike trail and decided to come back a different way, a way that took them past the Amber Mall. Brian remembered everything in incredible detail. Remembered the ...
He had come to rely on his senses and he knew something had changed to snap him awake that way and he lay with his eyes wide in the dark, listening, smelling, trying to see. He did not have long to wait. There was a soft rustle, then a whoofing soun...