Jonathan Helland lives in Vermont where he works in higher education. When he's not reading, writing, or teaching, he can be found enjoying the outdoors and practicing HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts). You can find him on twitter @jonathanhelland and you can find more of his fiction in Sundial Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, and Flash Fiction Online.
The mastiff didn't count days, but he knew his pack had been gone longer than ever before. There had been four of them. The man, the woman, the little boy, and the mastiff himself...