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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
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
Glasgow
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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Edo Japan, 1732
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New Mexico, 1977

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Dog Years is written in Scotland by

Ian C Peake