I feel like everyone has done a much nicer and more eloquent job of gushing about these stories (including Reunion, of course) so I'll just leave it at YAY! And, THANK YOU! While we're sort of loosely on the subject of dogs, I really like how you've made them a bit of a literary device (for lack of a better term). Almost everyone seems to have a dog or two, and you can certainly see the characters in their pets. If I'm not mistaken, in Reunion, Soldier mentions that he really adored a dog at one point in his life and later mentions that his current apartment doesn't allow pets? Veeeeeeery interesting (though it makes my heart break into a million pieces ohh Jane)