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...
Lunch
Barton's brain froze at what he saw before him. Underneath the smell and undernourished body was a young gray male rabbit who had been forced to grow up, far too quickly, in all the wrong ways, in the worst possible conditions. The milk chocolate eyes...
Revelations
_The Getaway_ had only failed to open on time twice in its long and respectable history. Once was due to the horrifying weather of Hurricane Sandy cutting just a wee bit too close for comfort, and even then the store only opened late. The other...
Choice
Perhaps the hardest thing that Barton ever did was to force himself to pretend not to care too much. The young rabbit would have a tough enough time trusting him not to turn them in to the authorities, much less believe that he actually wanted to...
Throwaways
The morning light stole in, as it always did, eventually, even after such a long and frightening night as Hallowe'en. For the young female rabbit crouched down behind a dumpster in the filthy back alley, the real terror was just beginning, again, as...
The Ambassador
_See how we measure feelings from a distance... See how we measure people into zero... -- October Project, "Be My Hero"_ The footman opened the rear passenger door of the stretch limousine, and I made a particularly graceful exit courtesy of the...
Story Scene -- "Why Not?"
Reasons, I had come to realize, have polarity, like electricity. There is a "why" pole and a "why not" pole, and they are quite proper opposites. The "why" pole attracts, providing you with reasons that tell you to do something, to make something...
Natural Habitat Interviews 4: Caedmon
Good evening; I'm James Lipton, and I'm privileged to bring to you five of the most interesting persons it's ever been my pleasure to interview. To begin with, I need to explain that what you're about to read concerns the discovery of a home, a house,...
Natural Habitat Interviews 1: Lightfoot
Good evening; I'm James Lipton, and I'm privileged to bring to you five of the most interesting persons it's ever been my pleasure to interview. To begin with, I need to explain that what you're about to read concerns the discovery of a home, a house,...
Associated Student Bodies -- Tiger By the Tail
------------------------------------------------- # Tiger By the Tail ## Winter 1999-2000 ## "Hey, Danny!" Daniel King paused in his walk down the hall of Hillard 2-E, grinning at the deer who waved him toward his room. "What's going on,...
Associated Student Bodies -- Don't Cry
---------------------------------------------------- # Don't Cry # _June 1999_ Tina sighed, trying one more time to get into the infamous "Benjy Section" of Faulkner's _The Sound and the Fury,_ wondering why in hell American literature...
Associated Student Bodies -- Do No Harm
# Do No Harm ## November 2003 "Another drink, sir?" Steven Paris shifted his tired gaze from the airplane window to look at the stewardess. The tigress might have been his own age, and in another time and place, he would have been much more...