These Are Dog Years

These Are Dog Years

A growing set of stories spanning deep time and everywhere. Each one stands alone (more or less). They come with sound, but only if you choose it.

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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, Kuai, Grandson-Become-Grandfather, and the Tombs That Could Not See
Yellow River Valley, Shang Dynasty 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.
1720
After Snow
Edo, Japan
A woman, a room, a trembling chin dog. The objects that outlast us.
32,000 BCE
The Crossing
Aurignac, Southern France
Firelight from the treeline. The wolf who chose to come closer.
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 Archipelago, 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
The Importance of Consistency and Attention in One Specific Canine-Human Relationship
Glasgow, Scotland
A man who counts everything. A dog who learns his language.
2026
Do Better
Sydney, Australia
A custody handover in a park. The dog is fine. They are not.
Later, Elsewhere
What comes next, after the familiar world loosens its grip.
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Boeotia, Pre-Classical Greece
OrinoCoTown, 2038
New Mexico, 1977

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These Are Dog Years is written in Scotland by

Ian C Peake