Recipe for Revenge Sampler

This is the opening scene from one of the twenty stories in my collection Tunnel Vision: RECIPE FOR REVENGE

The timber wolf bared its fangs, growled and padded towards Burga the Warrior-Cook.  Burga had been fighting since the sun stood overhead, and soon it would slip behind the castle walls.  His hands ached from gripping his weapons.  He flexed his fingers while awaiting the attack.

The wolf, its lower jaw covered by froth, crouched and sprang.

Burga keened his war cry, "Chateaubriand!"...