_I woke up and my treacherous mind pulled me right back into where I had left off the previous evening. Sarah was still asleep on my shoulder and I didn't want to wake her so I just stared at the ceiling and let my mind go where it wanted, back into...
Badger, Detective, Female, Male, Mandrill, Noir, Panther, Violence (Not In Yiff)
**A Strange Crunching Underfoot**
_Previously: In that moment, a loud scream rang out from somewhere inside the hotel, and we froze mid-sentence. It was a man__'s voice, but it wasn't the howl of a human in agony, or a desperate wail of sorrow; It...
Clean, Detective, Mystery, Otherkin, SFW, Story Progression, Therian, murder
Some detective i had turned out to be. here i was, asking around and trying to ferret out the identity of the killer, while the solution had been in plain sight all along. there never was one murderer:
everyone had been working together.
Clean, Demon, Detective, Espionage, Murder, Otherkin, SFW, Therian, Thriller, Werewolf
Hotel Kisanti was without electricity. The lights were out, the whooshing of the ceiling fans slowed and rattled like the exhale of a dying man. The industrial freezers thawed, endangering the shelf-lives of a thousand dollars' worth of ice cream. The...
Clean, Demon, Detective, Espionage, Murder, Otherkin, SFW, Therian, Thriller, Werewolf
Chapter Seven
Kisses From a Demon
Like a rare bubble of clean air can rise to the surface of a festering mire, a wave of clarity washed over my mind, if only for a second.
_Please,_ I begged some uncaring god, _don't let me do this. I don't wish to...
Clean, Demon, Detective, Espionage, Murder, Otherkin, SFW, Therian, Thriller, Werewolf
Chapter Six
Desmond Crane was an impressive looking man in his late forties. His hair was gray around the temples, same color as his eyes. He wore expensive shoes and a cheap shirt two sizes too small. _He lives alone_, I realized. _Same as...
Clean, Demon, Detective, Espionage, Murder, Otherkin, SFW, Therian, Thriller, Werewolf
Chapter Five
Murder in Mind
The tiny traveling _Circus Mascot_ was part circus and part freakshow, all mixed up. The performers traveled across the country to entertain towns large and small, with their acrobatic acts, freaks of nature and...
Clean, Demon, Detective, Espionage, Murder, Otherkin, SFW, Therian, Thriller, Werewolf
Chapter Four
Night is the time for Killing
Inspector Quinn loves coffee.
Cappuchino, espresso, cortado - just give him a decent cup of joe and he'll love it with a passion that makes you suspect him of being secretly French. Only, I don't have hard...
Clean, Demon, Detective, Espionage, Murder, Otherkin, SFW, Therian, Thriller, Werewolf
Chapter Three
Can You Pet a Phantom Cat?
The bottle of Bourbon was missing from Dr. Gill's office.
When I arrived at the hospital, Quinn was staring intensely at the blank spot on the desk, as if he tried to make the bottle reappear by will...
Clean, Demon, Detective, Espionage, Murder, Otherkin, SFW, Therian, Thriller, Werewolf
"_You've dialed 9-1-1; what's the address of the emergency?"_
"_City of Oakfort. Not sure where."_
"_I'm afraid you'll have to be more specific than that, Sir."_
"_There's a church on one side and... I'm in some kind of shop."'_
"_You're calling...
Clean, Demon, Detective, Espionage, Murder, Otherkin, SFW, Therian, Thriller, Werwolf