Winter Rain, part 27
Filed in Winter Rain, Jul 15, 2008, 23:25Chapter 3 The back gate looms ahead, its white paint oddly bright in the grey night. To see me running here, you’d have thought there’s no place I’d rather be. And I guess I thought the same, too. But . . . suddenly things seem different. The demons I thought I’d left behind in the dust have caught up at last. [...]
Winter Rain, part 26
Filed in Winter Rain, Jul 10, 2008, 13:09I crouch at the edge of the roof and stare down into the space between the buildings. I see nothing but movement. The spinning red and blue lights from the police car in the street cast an eerie, pulsating light into the night: it careens off the walls and down the alleys in odd, scurrying [...]
Winter Rain, part 25
Filed in Winter Rain, Jul 8, 2008, 08:20Shit! A police car siren blares somewhere just south on Taylee, and everything changes. The sniper reacts instantly, pulling back from the edge, and I grab the conduit and dive back down over the side to avoid being seen. I pull up short against the wall and peek back over. He kneels down and quickly pulls his [...]
Winter Rain, part 24
Filed in Winter Rain, Jul 6, 2008, 03:48Faolan! Tara! I launch into motion. Brennan dives at me, but too late. No! he orders from behind, but in a straight out run, he can’t catch me, and he knows it. I leap the gate into the back school yard and race toward the old industrial park on the other side. I haven’t a clue what I’m [...]
Winter Rain, part 23
Filed in Winter Rain, Jul 3, 2008, 12:18I round the corner and Elish is just ahead, on the far side of the street, still heading south. I can’t see Brennan anywhere, but he must be close: his scent is still strong in the air. As I hoped, the area around the new high school is dark and quiet. I bark a warning again—stop, [...]
Winter Rain, part 22
Filed in Winter Rain, Jul 1, 2008, 17:18Alleyways, yards, parks, and short sprints across side streets. Easy. Humans don’t see well at night, especially if you stick to the shadows and they to the light. Which is always the way. Stay out of the headlights of cars, though. Another hard-learned lesson. I can smell Brennan and Elish ahead. Nobody else yet. But I’m behind, [...]
