For the first time in more than thirty years, Elias Dunning saw Hump twenty paces from his own front step.…
The puppy was standing on the center line of Route 40, and Ben Mercer almost didn’t see it. The rain…
The yard dust was white and hot. By noon it had settled in the spokes of Julia’s wheelchair, and bare…
The calf made a sound with no voice in it, only air, and Maggie Tolliver heard it over the rain…
Leah Gunnell was shelling peas into an enamel basin on her lap when Vesta Pruitt came up from the river.…
Bare feet crossed the yard, and the dust rose behind them, hot and white, and hung in the air for…
There were eleven horses with yellow chalk on their hips in the back pen at the Ridge County auction, and…
Owen Bennett had come to the auction with enough money for one horse. Then the man beside him drew a…
Every time one of the sale-barn hands came up on her left side, the bay mare shifted her weight off…
The first dog bark came while both pups were nursing. The mother wolf lifted her head, and the smaller pup…
The coffee had barely begun to drip when Bram Keredine’s phone rang. He was camped near the Vermont border, with…
A horse could make Calvin Leberry look patient even when he wasn’t. It took time for a frightened animal to…