Cookie of Chances (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The meerkat gazed into the oven, and despaired. The baking pan, now somehow tarnished to a soft blue tint from the heat, bore a dozen objects that she'd hoped would become cookies during their time therein. ~ More than half of them were now crunched...
Dinner and Game (Otherwise Untitled)
~ With one hand occupied by a bag of groceries, the elderly German Shepard fumbled for a bit with the keys held in his other. Well practiced with arriving home, he didn't take much delay to get to the kitchen where he rested the bag on the counter....
Subway Inquiry (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The kobold calmly looked up from the book she was reading to meet the gaze of the excited cockatoo, their crest feathers bobbing along with the rattle and bustle of the subway. The lights flickered somewhat. ~ The tired sigh of repeating an answer...
Penmanship (Otherwise Untitled)
The pilot's handwriting got more harried as the air pressure dropped low enough to start impacting the pen's ability to lay down the words she'd forgotten to say.
Now Dispensing Hunger (Otherwise Untitled)
~ Having watched his only coins vanish into the void of the vending machine's endless yawn, the kobold glared with the vigor of hunger and desperation at the bag of chipto-discs. They dangled precariously from the hook, declining to fall.
Diplomacy on the Casino Floor (Otherwise Untitled)
~ Whenever Detective Clip found herself traveling to a location that was a proper touristing destination, it was always her preference to travel lightly. For this particular occasion, she'd managed to keep to a moderate backpack and an arrival during...
Flames Entertain an Offer (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The deer glared up at the thirty foot tall pillar of fire that loomed over the desert scrub. "Anything you'd be willing to steal, you'd've already taken.", tossing one of the previous year's antlers into the flames, "I'm here to make a deal." ~ The...
Orders Up, Options Sideways (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The possum shrugged to the gryphon, his hands, fingers, and mouth a complicated nest of support and manipulation around the burrito that he was struggling to eat faster than it could fall apart. ~ "But, then why even have it on the menu?", the...
Efficiency Meal (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The shopping mall's food court wasn't exactly the cleanest or calmest setting for a lunch, but Detective Clip was in an unfamiliar city and always valued having a swath of options for a meal. She gazed across the row of restaurants, their signage a...
Outsider's Documents (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The beige room was saturated in the hum of doldrums and the smell of shuffling paperwork. The fennec's expression was of exasperation to the barn owl across the desk looming over him. ~ "I've only got the one; I wasn't laid and then hatched. Just...
Travel Documents (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The band on stage was putting on a sufficiently raucous performance that the crowd kept up a dull roar of cheering into the night sky above. Detective Clip, garbed in t-shirt and pants, drifted her way through the crowd. She kept the pacing of her...
Old Friends in a Younge Place (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The hallways of the deep space way point station were always a crowded bustle of the recreational travelers transferring ships, visiting the many frivolous shops, or simply lingering about. Through the crowds, a fairly short fox slipped along with...