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Among The Pack Alone [MultiFormat]
eBook by Stephen Leigh
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description:  No matter what you do to enhance a creature's intelligence, there are still ancient, hardwired responses that will drastically affect their behavior. A dog, no matter how changed, is still a dog.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Sirius, The Dog Star, ed. Martin H. Greenberg and Alex Potter, 2004
Fictionwise Release Date: October 2005
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [194 KB], eReader (PDB) [29 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [16 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [15 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [76 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [86 KB], hiebook (KML) [93 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [43 KB], iSilo (PDB) [13 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [17 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [45 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [25 KB]
Words: 4916
Reading time: 14-19 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
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All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
"...a truly impressive piece of writing that examines the moral implications of tinkering with the genetic makeup of animals ... Speculative, original and entertaining, the story ends in a cracking cliff-hanger that will have you tearing your hair out in frustration."--Martin Jenner, SF Crow's Nest
He watched her from the moment she entered his territory.
He could smell her in the breeze: a human, no more than three days past her menses, with the overlaying scent of perfume as if she wanted to hide her own musk, something he could never understand. Why would you want to hide the truths the nose could understand?
He sniffed again: there was apprehension bordering on fear underneath it all, like the scratch of fleas at the base of your ear just where you can't easily reach. He could hear her shuffling in the dry leaves and pine needles, hesitant, then a long inhalation as she tried to calm herself. Another sniff: she was alone. He'd known that from watching her this morning, but with humans he'd learned to be very careful. She was waiting for him: Karen
Carefully, he stepped two-legged from the cover of the blackberry thicket, deliberately letting himself make enough noise that her head suddenly snapped up and she rose from the log on which she'd sat, unmoving, since the sun had risen behind banked, dark clouds. In the clearing, the faint light glinted from a chain around her neck; a rectangle of plastic hung in the valley of her denim shirt with her image on it under the EGC logo.
"Madra?" Karen husked, her voice cracking mid-syllable. The smell of apprehension intensified, yet underneath it there was something else, something he didn't want to trust. "Is that you?"
He didn't answer. She was turning around, looking all around her in the thick forest without seeing him. The wind shifted abruptly, leaving him with only the odor of impending rain and the moldy sharpness of the forest; he knew that the air carried his scent down to her yet she didn't react, unable to read the subtle, telling odors in the air. "Madra," she called again. "Please come out. You know I won't hurt you. I just ... I just want to talk with you. Please. As a friend."
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