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    The Bellhound: Four Tales of Modern Magic
    The Bellhound: Four Tales of Modern Magic
    The Bellhound: Four Tales of Modern Magic
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    The Bellhound: Four Tales of Modern Magic

    By Camille LaGuire

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    Four contemporary fantasy stories. In "The Bellhound" a woman needs protection, but doesn't want a dog; in "Away He Run" a boy struggles with being his family secret; in "The Trespasser" a girl and her pony come face to face with death; in "Like The Wind" there's not much stronger than the will of a teenager.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCamille LaGuire
    Release dateMar 24, 2011
    ISBN9781458015990
    The Bellhound: Four Tales of Modern Magic

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      The Bellhound - Camille LaGuire

      The Bellhound

      Four Tales of Modern Magic

      by Camille LaGuire

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      Second Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2013 Camille LaGuire, All Rights Reserved

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      Table of Contents

      The Bellhound

      Away He Run

      Trespasser

      Like The Wind

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      The Bell Hound

      An independent woman needs protection, but doesn’t want a dog. A witch, and a friendly cop, help her find another option.

      * * *

      THE NEWS WAS not what I wanted to hear. No, no, no. Not that that my psychotic neighbor had escaped before they even quite got him into jail. I did not want to hear that. The policeman, a detective named Wardell, looked distinctly uncomfortable as he told me about it.

      Maybe you should get a dog, he said. I had gotten to know some of these cops over the past few weeks pretty well. My take on this one–a middle-aged lanky country boy with a Southwestern line of patter–was that he probably liked dogs a lot. Probably thought everybody ought to have one.

      If you remember, I said. Davidson’s first victim was a dog.

      "Yeah, but it was his dog, so I figure he took it by surprise."

      With an axe. If I had known he was like that, I never would have called the police on him for pissing in public. On the other hand, I probably would have called them about the dog, even if it was a noisy obnoxious animal. What the man did to it was what I call Evil.

      I don’t like dogs, I said. And neither does my cat. My gray cat, Neeper, was playing in the basket of strange knick-knacks I collected. I figured she had the right idea, and I pulled a protection charm from the mass of chains and strings and her paws. I slipped it over my head and wished I knew one of those ward gestures. It might be superstition, but it made me feel more in control. A little. Anxieties are a bitch.

      That ain’t gonna help you with this, he said, pointing at the charm. I looked at him in surprise that he knew what it was. I guess cops see all sorts of behavior in scared people.

      It can’t hurt, I said.

      That’s for the Evil Eye, he continued, tilting his head. You haven’t got a problem with a jealous goddess, ma’am. You’ve got a vengeful psychotic who wouldn’t have the first idea of how to use magic against you. He’ll wanna use a knife or a gun. How’s that gonna help against an axe? Or for that matter, a fist?

      What am I supposed to do? I can’t afford a security company, and I’ve got enough problems without adding a slobbering mutt to my household.

      He paused to think, and started digging in his pockets. He found a pencil, but he kept digging.

      You really believe in that stuff? He gestured toward the charm again with the pencil. I paused.

      Actually, I do, I said,

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