Another Brother
"It's not sneaking you in! It's like, I dunno, carrying a genie in a lamp. You can take stuff in without having to disclose everything!" A trip to the movies was usually like a huge day of indulgence for the three of us, me and my brother and my...
The Wrong Fear
So. You've been telling me about these fears you're having. I think it's about time we confront them for good. Shall we? * * * It's an understandable fear, to be sure: being farmed, being preyed on--it's a primal thing. That fear kept our ancestors...
Deeper Secrets
I slept in on Sunday morning till it was already Sunday afternoon. My mates had already gotten up, leaving me the whole big warm bed to sprawl out in--which basically meant rolling into the deep indentation in the mattress where Rockwell had been...
A Bear's Vacation
The bear left his tent while the dawn was still breaking. He gathered up enough firewood to keep him warm for the morning and set up his campfire in the pit. It was still early and there was no need to work _too_ hard just yet. He sat and watched the...
Satyr's Glade
From the moment I first heard the music, I knew I would have to follow it. The convention was noisy and full of people but the notes somehow stood out, a bright spot like biting into a fresh blueberry baked into a muffin--which is actually kind of how...
Roughing It
I had been looking forward to vacationing at the coach's place in the woods for a while now. Sometimes you just need a break from the day-to-day grind, and this was one of those times--after a few hard months at work with no real time off, a long...
Volunteering at Work
I was early for work tonight; the setting sun was still pouring in through the windows as I got off the elevator and trundled towards my desk. The tiger working the evening handoff dumped his headset and started throwing his stuff together as I sat...
A Life of Feeding
Petar had promised me he'd work on getting me fat, and the raccoon kept his word: every day after work he'd come by and make sure I made the scale hit a bigger number than the day before. It was _damn hard_--I went to bed every night feeling like my...
Close Quarters
The train to O-town was a chore for someone my size to ride. Granted, most transportation was more trouble than it was worth these days, but sometimes you just have to be there. They'd assigned me to a slightly-more-capacious room built for people...
The Roommate
I rolled into campus around 7:30 on move-in day and pulled my backpack out of my SUV. It was still pretty gray out and it didn't look like too many people were up and about yet, so I hoped I would be able to get checked in pretty quick and get settled...
Chocolate Squirrel
The janitors in the break room were saying the sauna was a bitch to keep clean--at least, in the past month since the pig had joined the gym and made it his favorite room. It wasn't so much that he was doing anything _worse_ than the other patrons of...
A Night of Feeding
So I've always wanted to get fat. Trouble is, it's a little harder than most people think. Sure, you might think "oh, I blow up huge if I don't stick to my diet" but that's just the first fifteen pounds that terrifies you into hitting the gym...