PROMISES

Ernest’s guards were as useless as he was, easy to avoid as they chatted with each other. No one noticed when I scaled the wall in my lupine form, my skinny, gray legs spanning the barrier to land me on my worn pads. Then I immediately morphed back to my human body, making my way to the small building that Ernest called house.

CONTINUE

It was a shack at best. Even the trailer we’d lived in with our mom had more class and elegance than this stinking, ill-kept structure that was bound to fall down with a serious gust of wind.

I shut my eyes try to recollect if I had someone I could remember from my past that could help out but my memories from my past felt blank

Inhaling, I pushed into the shack, a flurry of movement catching my peripheral vision, forcing my heart to pound. For half a second, I thought I’d been caught sneaking back, but Ernest’s inept guards merely laughed over some ridiculous anecdote, their backs to me as I slid inside, unobserved.

I sneaked up to Agnes and my son, I