Stress Fractures
"I thought it didn't rain in the desert," Desmond said, through squinting eyes. His tall, rabbit-like ears drooped over, trying (in vain) to be umbrella-like. His muzzle still got wet, and water droplets still weighed down his whisker tips. His...
All Aflame
"This is Commander Peregrine of the Federation Space Station Redwing. Please identify yourselves." He let out a breath, waiting. Waiting. Still waiting. Continuing, "According to our sensors, your ship has been this way before. The last time...
Exit Strategy
"You wanted to see me?" The casually-dressed otter strode into the captain's ready room. A moist, muggy place. The environmental controls were stifling in here. "Yez, I did," wisped the yellow-spotted salamander. His skin smooth, slightly-wet, a...
Buttons
Padding in her bare foot-paws, lightly, primly across the room, her bobtail flickering behind her, the snow rabbit said, "Computer, deactivate force-field A-15." With a faint-blue light and a soothing shimmer-sound, the force-field went down....
Dark Science
His throat was raw and sore, and his brown eyes were redder than they should've been. And his nose was so, so itchy! Like it was being tickled with a feather-duster. And his whiskers were lax with weariness. "Poor thing," the cinnamon-furred...
Cleaning Comes First
Scrub-scrub-scrub. "I take it as an insult." A rag was dunked into a bucket of warm, soapy water. A bit of a splash as the rag was withdrawn and tossed (with a soggy slap-sound) against the wall. His brown-grey tail, all striped with black and...
Easing Into It
"You like it?" "Uh ... heh. Well," the piebald-furred rabbit replied, not giving a definitive response. Only, "You're gonna make him blush. You know that?" The sound of a zipper. As she put her uniform back on. For, not ten minutes ago, she and...
I Surrender All
"Maybe it's a gremlin." Aisling looked up, blinking. Straightening. "Gremlin?" Her white-furred, charcoal-fringed ears waggled, standing to attention. The interiors of her ears delicate and pink. The pika nodded. "You know, a ... like, a...
Here There Be Mouses
"You're obviously," the mouse panted, breath shaky, "traumatized." An exhale. He put a paw to his forehead, wincing, whiskers twitching in frightful fashion. The pain was a throbbing, pulsating one. Pulse, pulse, pulse. Eyes half-open, he pulled the...
Attention, Please
"Phase adjuster." Chirkof fished for the tool-kit, which resulted in a few clattering sounds. Finding the phase adjuster. And handing it to Aisling. "Thank you." The chief engineer took the tool and ran the blunt, glowing end over the...
Things That Hop
"Should I alter course?" he wondered, whisker-twitching. Graham considered, standing up. Padding away from his chair. And stopping behind Taylor's chair at the helm. Putting his paws on the chipmunk's shoulders. "Ada, you're sure it's not one of...
In From the Sad Day Out
" ... it's alright." A small shudder-shake. Eyes screwed shut. Shutting out the streaming stars. Sight for night. Dark for dark. "Calm down," was the repeated, whispered plea. Soft and tender. In the dimness, in their quarters, both of them...