-1- Andrew Payne was dead and knew it. Pale sunshine dribbled feeble warmth into the hospital room as it streamed through white gauze curtains. A dark cloud drifted slowly across a dull sky and the sunshine faded, which pretty much summed up Andrew’s condition and mood. A drip tube inside his left elbow fed […]
A sheet of blood covered the eastern sky. Overhead, the moon glowed, full and pale in dawn’s light. Shadows lay heavy in the valley, and the mist lay like a gray blanket that hugged the steep slopes. A bull elk strode out of the forest, his sides wet from morning dew. His front hooves […]