The Jam Jar
For Neil Gaiman, who unknowingly gave me the seed crystal _ _ _ "Ye gods, that thing is repulsive."_ _ "Yes, I know."_ _ "Why do you keep it?"_ _ "It needs me."_ \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* The rat, mid-sized for his particular feral...
Because We Have Wings
**_Monday_** There is nothing better than waking up naturally, rising slowly from the depths of sleep because of the clear, slowly growing dawn bringing golden light into your bedroom windows -- or, in this case, into the high windows set into the...
A Homo, a Hetero, and a Metro Walk Into a Bar
"All right, guys, one round on me, and then we're off to the movies, whadda ya say?" There's nothing quite as difficult as trying to keep up the morale of the morally impaired, and as much as I loved my friends, they were about as hopeless as it...
The Desperate Hours
The large, powerful lion looked through the observation window into the hospital room beyond, his forepaw clenched desperately into a fist pressed against the glass, his face caught somewhere between terror and rage. The body in the bed beyond lay...
Collar 13 -- I Am Called
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Questions
"All Saints Day," Barton said into the quiet. "Pardon?" "The day ye both came t' find me." Barton sat in his chair near the fire, while the twins sat on the sofa nearby. They wanted to be sitting in his lap, as they often had over the past week,...
TTYS -- Saturday Morning Coffee
Four friends gathered around the table at the cafe, enjoying the coffee, the company, and the sweetness of a Saturday mid-morning with the promise of something special attached to it. The great tawny lion chuckled as he looked across the table to the...
The Short Attention Span Porn Story Contest Winners
**GENERAL PORN** First Place: "They fucked." Second Place: "They fucked a lot." Third Place: "They fucked a whole bunch of times." **CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT** First Place: "They had a drink and fucked." Second Place: "They enjoyed martinis and...
Touching the Past, Part 1
Maw agape, the young numbat graduate student stared upward at the huge, ornate construction that stood before him. The height alone awed him, at least 70m if it were a centimeter, and all that from the base of the foundation; at the moment, he was...
Collar 14 -- Numbers and 1 Corinthians
Fletcher and I took our evening calmative in the kitchen, to sit at the table and talk about "small stuff," as he called it. Showing excellent discretion, Mrs. Whitson made sure that we had exactly two fine snickerdoodle cookies each to go with our...
Definitions
The lyric "it's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday" floated through Barton's mind as he tended to yet another customer. As was usual for a busy day, the three rental stations were active with their various clients and dressers, and conversation was...
Solstice
The longest day of the year also has the shortest night. Strange, you'd think, that it should affect me so much at this time, because the legend has it that we only come out at night, usually full moon nights. But so much of the legend is wrong. Most...