Wild Rose Country - Chapter 21
The snap of the bowstring made Sharra jump. Startled, her ears shot straight up and her eyes opened wide as the arrow hissed towards the target. She remained frozen in place with her mouth half open for a long moment after the goose feather fletched...
Wild Rose Country - Chapter 13
What can I say about the aftermath of our horrifying encounter with the grizzly? Even now, when such things are years in the past, it's very hard for me to find a place to begin. I could start by saying that in the weeks afterwards there were times...
Wild Rose Country - Chapter 12
Few memories are left to me of the agony that Sharra and I endured during my mad race back to the cabin. Of those few memories that I do have, most have been pushed far back into the darkest corners of my mind and hidden there behind a protective...
Wild Rose Country - Chapter 11
This next part is difficult for me to write, even after all of the years that have passed since that difficult experience. Call it a hard lesson, if you will, that a simple life is neither easy nor is it pretty. On the contrary, life is hard,...
Wild Rose Country - Chapter 10
If I thought I was confused after the little episode of weirdness that occured when Sharra tackled me and sat on my chest, it was nothing compared to what she went through. She actually knew what was happening between us and it scared her. An extremely...
Wild Rose Country - Chapter 9
The beginning of April can be a wonderful time of year. Daytime temperatures finally crawl up to lurk around the freezing point and the short, dark days of winter are fading into memory. The realization that warmer weather lies just around the...
Wild rose Country - Chapter 8
The rising sun hung low over the forested hills to the east, casting a pale yellow light upon the land from behind the obscuring tendrils of low clouds. Shielding her eyes with her paw, Sharra squinted up at the bringer of light and warmth through the...
Wild Rose Country - Chapter 7
One by one, Sharra's senses slowly returned to her as she made a slow transition from a deep dreamless sleep to a state that somewhat resembled wakefulness. She lay still for a moment, slightly disoriented. For some reason she was curled up on the...
Wild Rose Country - Chapter 6
After experiencing the single most shocking, confusing, terrifying, unbelievable and just downright weird sequence of events in my entire life. I was at a complete loss as to what I should do next and I wasn't quite sure what to think or believe...
Wild Rose Country - Chapter 5
That first night was an interesting one for each of us. You already know that I gained a minor concussion out of it and what Sharra experienced wasn't exactly a whole lot nicer. We were complete unknowns to each other, strange creatures of nightmare...
Wild Rose Country - Chapter 4
This is where the telling of this story will get a little different. I wasn't sure when exactly I should begin this next part but I figured that now is as good of a time as any. I have all of these memories from Sharra locked up in my mind and I have...
The Gift of a Stranger - Chapter 6
All sense of the passage of time had long since bled away into the unvarying darkness that held the stranger fast within his cell. How long had he been locked in here? Hours? Days? He didn't know. Day was indistinguishable from night in this dank...