The Trapped Bird
This is my song- the song of a trapped blackbird. I long for the days when i was free, free from envy, free from jealousy, free from these artificial proscriptions the higher-ups and the faceless guys at the top put on me. Instead, I find myself...
Between Sun and Moon
Nothing in Davis' studies as a sociologist and explorer could have prepared him for this. In all his years, very few of the tribes he had ever come across would allow him so much as a rite to view one of their sacred traditions yet alone participate in...
A Story for Dogs
It had struck Jamie that his human could not see what he was going through. The child and his parents had loved Jamie, that beloved golden retriever for many years. Mr and Mrs. Davidson had loved and cared for that animal but their thirteen-year-old...
Peaceable Kingdom
A wave towards the morning sky... For Alex Lee, this new job had proven to be stressful. There, he was dropped in New York City after years in Minnesota and soon this fox had discovered that there was far more to this job as a consultant in this...
California Soul (clean)
The life of a 49er was hard- in between the heat and exhaustion of a California day and the threat of Indian attacks, undeserving claim-jumpers and other miners all looking for the same treasure, these men would stop and think about the decisions they...
California Soul
The life of a 49er was hard- in between the heat and exhaustion of a California day and the threat of Indian attacks, undeserving claim-jumpers and other miners all looking for the same treasure, these men would stop and think about the decisions they...
City of Dreams
In all honesty, the task of protecting the prospectors from Indian attack was just as boring as panning the rivers and mining the caves themselves looking for gold. In the unrelenting California sun, Sheng Lee the fox stood guard sunup to sundown with...
Gam Saan (The Golden Mountain)
The boat ride by schooner was a long, nauseous, disease-filled trip which saw Sheng Lee lose his meals more times tha nhe cared to admit on the six-month boat ride from the Chinese port town of Shanghai to a city which a few years ago was nothing more...
Rust Belt Tails: Different Strings
The auto plant in Flint, Michigan had lost two of its greatest employees, the supervisor Tarik Abdul-Aziz, the lion from Beirut who left the Detroit metropolitan area with Justin Essenza, a wolf for whom generations of men in his family had manned the...
Quandro Llegare Al Bohio? (When Is my Return Home?)
Life had been hard for the old wolf Eliades from the hard-scrabble, farm province of Camaguey his entire life. His early years were filled with subsistence farming as were many other poor citrus farmers in the region when the despotic ruler Fulgencio...
Babalu-Aye
Setting: Santiago, Cuba The night air was thick as the sun had gone down over the island of Cuba, bringing an end to the work day of the famers, who had toiled growing the sugarcane responsible for the creation of Cuban rum. The best rum in the...
Red Barchetta
"Well today's Sunday, April 2nd- your 18th birthday. You're going to see your uncle. He says he's got this gift he wants to show you Daniel". the coyote's mother told him as they packed their belongings up for a one-hour bus ride out of the big city to...