Hope for Africa
Setting: Kinyanwi, Rwanda Date: July 23, 1994 The entire scene was a bloodbath, more devastating than any nightmare the young wolf from London had ever seen in his life. Nathan Edelstein's mother and father had told him of the Blitz which...
Soliloquy + Grand Finale
Could it at all be possible that what the Oracle who the wolf saw in his dream was true? Could it be that the victory of the Solar Federation against the Elder Race had resulted in a culturally inferior people who could not ever hope to create the...
The Analog Kid
It was just another one of those boring, endless summer days where nothing important ever seems to happen for the young fox. There was a wind blowing in from the Atlantic Ocean, the luxurious, almost motherly, warmth that only comes to the lucky...
Oracle: The Dream
This was truly the worst day in the wolf's life. Not only was his beloved instrument, the same one which he had found deep in the cave, deemed unfit and destroyed by the Priests for cultural advancement, but his very faith in the Solar federation had...
The Presentation
It was to be known as the day that the wolf would awaken the citizens of Megadon to music as a major force in shaping the culture of the city. He had bought a large enough suitcase to carry the guitar and as he went down to his beloved waterfall,...
The Discovery
'...Behind my beloved waterfall, in the little room that was hidden beneath the cave, I found it. I brushed away the dust of the years, and picked it up, holding it reverently in my hands. I had no idea what it might be, but it was beautiful... ...
Workin' Them Angels
"Through with the second semester," the wolf exclaimed as he received his grades- all A's, with the exception of a withdrawal from a math course. (Math was unimportant to a History major like the wolf and he was math-illiterate so what did it matter to...
Bravest Face
"Though we might have precious little, it's still precious." As the guest speaker arose, the crowd of students stood in respectful silence for what he was going to say. he was a Psychology professor lecturing on the role of fantasy versus reality....
The Pass
It was another long, meaningless, and frustrating day for young Joseph Wilbanks, a wolf of 17 years at Etobicoke High School in Etobicoke, Ontario, a place which he had learned to hate for its harsh teachers and mean bullies. Seeing as how he was only...
Rust Belt Tails III: Trial Under Fire
This was the kind job that nobody actually wants, if they can help it. But after months of living at his mother Maria's expense for food and lodging, he needed to reutrn a portion of his living expenses to Maria and that meant, of course, finding a...
Singing Land
"Why are we meeting him? He's an old codger who doesn't know anything," the wolf cub said to his mother, as they walked beneath the maple trees leading to the hidden forest clearing on this moonlit night. "He is a coyote of great wisdom who has...
St. Louis Blues
Setting: Missouri, Jazz Age "I hate to see the evening sun go down", the pantheress, Florence declared as she looked across her home in Jefferson City at sunset. It was a captivating view of the setting sun from her beautiful home- a former...