Big Blue
I know people often think of me as the totally passive bottom skunk who takes anything that comes his way, and... well, that's true and I couldn't credibly pretend otherwise. When people are surprised at why my Rumblr profile lists me as hungry--a guy...
Artie
Now, anyone who knows me knows I'm not usually one for time outdoors. And it's not because I have some deadly allergy to the sun (even vampires can get around that with five minutes' thought) or because I'm too fat to get up or fit through doors (I...
Backstage
Most people come to a concert to watch the stage; me, it's my job to watch the crowd. Tonight's audience was rowdy--Macerator tended to draw a packed house--but at least they were focused on the music, not on rushing the stage or starting brawls or...
Can I Take More?
The tank in my bag was a lot heavier than I expected, for something that was supposed to make things so light. I'd been saving up for a while and today, the day it finally wouldn't put me in the red, I'd gone downtown and plunked down the cash for an...
A Stray Snowball
I tell ya, you never know what a new day's gonna bring ya, not even if yer life's the same day in and day out. The world just finds a way to throw new stuff at ya. My favorite day like that happened not too long ago. I'm not too long out of school...
Hisham
Christmas morning on my own, rain splattering on the motel room window in the dark. The holiday doesn't mean as much when you don't have family or friends around; work had me in the city for the whole month, and my chief exposure to the holiday season...
A Day at the Waterpark
Sometimes when a good thing happens, you want to go out and celebrate it. Today, for example, was something to celebrate because Mattock had just gotten the Big Raise at work, and what better way to celebrate a raise than to go out and spend it all and...
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...
The Scent of Pork
Sometimes you want to go out and eat someone. Other times it just happens. I was only trying to get some studying done. The dormmates were having another of their rowdy parties, so I decided to duck out and hit the library instead. I'd never spent...
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 Horrible Night
Every day, Darkwater slept in my bed; I took the opportunity to stay with Pollux at his place next door. Every evening, we came in to take care of the otter and found him in worse shape. “Maybe I don't _want_ to remember my mates anymore," he said,...
An End of Feeding
It was a regular disappointment to see, every morning, the scale that only read 700 pounds. I used to be a lot bigger--filling a bed with over half a ton of immobile ferret flab--till I started dying regularly and the doctor said I needed to ease up...