The Mascot
The football game was heating up, it was just before halftime and the teams were in the red zone. The crowd was on its feet, cheering for the offense to score, egged on by the cheerleaders and the large snake strutting around, bolstering the team...
A Touch Of Heat
The setting sun cast a brilliant splash of color over the sky. Rick could see it shading the mountains, creating a masterpiece of visual beauty that few artists could ever hope to come close to replicating. It was one of the reasons he loved to be out...
Happenstance
To Torrin, there was nothing like a nice rest in a soothing spring in the middle of the forest. Resting his body and relaxing his muscles was a good feeling in general, but the perfect body of water was hard to find - the right temperature, the...
Wild Night
nough was enough. It was time to figure out what was going on. Marina knew how it probably looked - keeping her car in sight of her boyfriend Todd's vehicle, following him after yet another vague brush-off. Some might have called her...
Croc Pot
“Are you sure you want to be here?” Dale’s expression was full of obvious concern, and he was clearly sticking very close to Roscoe, too close for comfort. It was a painful thing, seeing his friend treating him like he was so fragile...even...
Outside Forces
“You’re kidding me.” “I wish I was.” “They threw a fucking bug bomb through your window?” “I couldn’t believe it. I barely got out of there in time...was lucky enough that I hadn’t unpacked my bag yet, so I had something to carry...
Joining the Family
Jerron had always been an only child. There were upsides and downsides - no one else to hog the attention, but no one else to take the blame; no one to bug his friends, but no one always around to join in when his friends weren't available; no one to...
Custom Form
Dozens of hours of overtime, months of scrimping and saving, arduous battles with temptation and careful consideration of unavoidable expenses...Devin really wasn't sure he could handle having to go through all of that ever again. But for one...
A Scaly Companion
"You don't really think about collateral damage, but it happens. Like, take this battle I had about a year ago. Gerrus goes up against a Toxicroak, and his main thing is that he tries not to get hit. That means he does a lot of running around, tries to...
Card Shark
“Call.” “Call.” “Fold.” “Ugh, same.” All eyes turned towards the fifth of the table. A lean, mean, oceanic machine, a mako shark dressed smartly, a nice vest and undershirt and nice trousers, with an impossible-to-read...
Breaking The Breaking Mind
Kiali liked predictability…so tonight was taking a very bad turn. He was stumbling into an alley, a hand on his head, trying to remain upright through the buzz in his mind. A buzz that was warning him of something bad…and he couldn’t do anything to...
Commission: To Protect And Serve
“C'mon, man! You need to loosen up a bit, relax and enjoy yourself!" “Ugh...Roger...you know I don't really like bars. That's only a place where you relax, I don't relax at all." “Well, if you did them right you'd relax just...