Ash Dogs: Recent Episodes

Justin Nicholes

Marcus Green has just been discharged after a tour of duty in Iraq. Wounded and disfigured, Marcus returns to a life he barely recognizes... and that barely recognizes him. Stricken by guilt and self-doubt, and spurred on by deep-rooted restlessness, Marcus decides he must embark on a journey to reclaim that part of himself which he has lost. As he explores his past he reconnects with a forgotten half-brother in Mexico and a former hometown love, but he must also come to grips with his accidental family - other wounded veterans and the Iraqis he was supposed to protect. (20% of the profits from "Ash Dogs" will be donated to the Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust)

What Marcus has to say. The end.

The Kent State forum.

Grandma Abrams, dying, clarifies Ben Marco's family line, and Leroy comes to recruit.

Sergeant Reed haunts Marcus, and Kia gives birth.

A wedding.

A killer materializes.

Maintaining the gas station, Marcus learns a killer's loose.

Kia, and Marcus, have news.

Leroy's titanium grievance, and Marcus's stolen wallet.

The Aztec gave this god a pyramid.

What Marcus's father made in Mexico, and Oscar goes away.

A philosopher, Amora's aesthetic theory, and Marcus investigates his father's past.

Oscar and the brothers in Mexico City, and Marcus visits Rosita.

Marcus, on his way to Mexico, stops in Antiguo for Leroy.

Underground, memories of a brother, and Marcus visits Kia's room.

Marcus and Kia underwater, Bill Norman's invitation, and after Kia's scared by a prowler, an interview.

Leroy's email, Marcus remembers Mexico, and his father's investment.

Marcus on the mend, though some wounds can't heal.

Marcus comes back, but not alone.

Marcus and Leroy before, then after, a bereaved father speaks.