Serval and Sheep Prologue: Exhibition Match
Living beings are intrinsically bound to instinct. The bird is driven to sing, the snake is driven to hiss, the wolf is driven to howl. Such behaviors need no introductions nor explanation, they are simply ingrained in one's innermost being. It is a...
Serval and Sheep Prologue: SIDE SERVAL
The end of another match. Me and the other girls finish our victory flourish, shaking our green pom-poms excitedly in the air, the ruffling of the streamers mimicking the elation of the crowd. As the fighters help each other up and shake hands,...
Serval and Sheep Prologue: SIDE SHEEP
I can barely hear my breathing over the sound of the cheers. I wipe the sweat off my brows but it just soaks into the wool on my arms. I need to take a long shower today. Kenneth the ibex lay flat on his back, still a little dazed. He grunts as his...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 1)
The ray of light that sneaks past the curtains sends a pillar of color to the student council president's polished desk. It had been thoroughly cleaned, and the items of the former president have all been removed. However, it is not completely...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 40)
"Dude, this is super weird." "Super fucking weird." Marcel looks up at his yak companion. "Dude, I'm getting a weird deja vu." "Same." Almost as if by instinct, the two bovids look behind them expecting an irate Jacob sheep ready to yank them by...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 2)
Hafsa had not slept all weekend. The memories of what happened Friday evening danced around her head like mischievous children. By all accounts, she shouldn't even be worried. I mean, she wasn't doing anything wrong. She was just eating a snack. It's...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 36)
The sun is a pale orange by the time Hafsa and Molly leave the shopping district. With armfuls of colorful bags weighing them down, they slowly amble their way back to the bus stop. Of all people to go on a shopping spree with Hafsa on the...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 38)
As these things often go, Hafsa and Desmond eventually returned back to their normal state of affairs. This was the result of a combination of a) the inevitable series of classes they shared on a near daily basis which forced the bare minimum of...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 35)
_I'm going to die._ Rabbits are animals that can actually die of fright. Their small hearts can give out from stress or terror just from one bad scare. Due to their small, edible proportions, natural selection has cursed these creatures with...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 10)
A carnie should never let their guard down. Hafsa learned this the hard way before, but because she got complacent, or perhaps just because the universe decreed so, she has to learn that lesson all over again. Her reputation, and consequently her...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 28)
The end of spring break brings a twofold anguish. The obvious first is the return to the academy. Students come back to their cramped dorms, highlighter-drenched notebooks and morning classes. But the very first day post-spring break is always Species...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 31)
If you are a student at Noah's Arc Academy, that automatically makes you a friend of Hafsa's, or so goes the saying. There is not a creature alive that the serval would not welcome with open arms. This is what makes a popular girl a popular girl, after...