Peter Vickland

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“Nobody Home ” by Peter Vickland

Submitted to Contest #20

    Wyatt Foster could walk past the dog in the Jenkins’s yard—the dog that snarled and snapped at the chain link fence with viscous spittle spewing through the spaces and gnashing teeth gleaming wicked in the sunshine—without blinking, without flinching. Perhaps it was because he moved to the neighborhood when he was twelve, had not grown up with that angry Rottweiler as the “monster under the bed” in all his childhood nightmares. Maybe he had lived somewhere without vicious dogs, so had never learned to fear them. If that wa...

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Peter Vickland is a novelist and fiction writer based in Sacramento, California. His published works include two novels, THEY WEPT INK and IN EVERY DIRECTION, as well as a short story, UTAH. for more information or to contact Peter, visit petervickland.com