Into the Thick — Chapter Two
Achilles
14 min readMar 10, 2022
Chapter One of this in-progress novel can be found here.
Although my reaction to the carrion stood as something of an epiphany, I didn’t really imagine there would be that much of a to-do over a dead dog. The police had been called and everything, though the atmosphere was unsettlingly silent with no whirring sirens or desperate shouts. Throughout the proceedings I was…