Dog Years

A growing set of stories spanning deep time and everywhere. Each one stands alone (more or less). They come with sound, but only if you choose it.

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The same stories, different doors.

Myth and Ancestors

The first fires, the old gods, and the stories we carried forward.

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32,000 BCE

Aurignacian Night

Aurignac, France

A boy at the edge of firelight. A wolf-shape in the dark. The first choice.

1200 BCE

The Story of Shu, Kuai, Grandson-Become-Grandfather, and the Tombs That Could Not See

Yellow River Valley, China

A grandfather's story. A ratter named Shu. The tomb that could not see.

1885 / Never / Always / Now

The Wild Hunt

Prairie / Sky / Myth

What happens after the last breath. The Hunt rides. It was always riding for her.

731 CE

Marginalia

Northumbria

A Northumbrian hall at midwinter. A monk's sermon. A hound and a wounded rabbit.

1618

The Parrot's Tale

Agra, Mughal India

A parrot who remembers everything. A girl who won't stay caged. A dog made of moonlight and hunger.

Teeth

Empires crumble, borders shift, and dogs witness what humans build and abandon.

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1898–1914

Herrengasse Elegy

Vienna, Austria

A black Labrador. An empire collapsing. Loyalty until the end.

1885

Packless

Dakota Territory, USA

A wagon's wheel. A stray bleeding out in the grass. The sky pulling harder.

1972

Anomaly at ARCESS-7

Svalbard, Norwegian Arctic

A dog team. A polar night. Something impossible on the ice.

In Our Time

The partnership as we know it now — ordinary and irreplaceable.

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2023

Echo

Scotland

A man, a puppy, and the first day of everything.

2020

The Importance of Consistency and Attention in One Specific Canine-Human Relationship

Glasgow, Scotland

A man who counts everything. A dog who learns his language.

Later, Elsewhere

What comes next, after the familiar world loosens its grip.

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