St. Louis Blues
Setting: Missouri, Jazz Age "I hate to see the evening sun go down", the pantheress, Florence declared as she looked across her home in Jefferson City at sunset. It was a captivating view of the setting sun from her beautiful home- a former...
Benjamin the Wolf
"Glorified and sanctified be God's great name throughout the world which He has created according to His will." These words had become all too familiar for Benjamin Cohn the wolf. The words were the start of the Mourner's Kaddish, which meant that...
Mother part 3
The next day, George and Maria were absolutely brimming with confidence and it had nothing to do with the fact that they had just wonderful sex the night before (although that most definitely helped). These two wolves would explore that mean, old,...
Rust Belt Tails II: And the Stars Look Down
"No one ever liked working on an assembly line", Tarik Abdul-Aziz thought to himself as he assembled yet another pick-up truck. Driving his car, which he received for free after his fifth year on the job at Ford, he knew that he would not be the most...
Memorial to a Coyote
The beach in Northern France was so quiet and so serene, a polar opposite of that day decades ago. This was Memorial Day for Nathan Calhoun and for the first time in decades Mr. Calhoun, the elderly coyote, grey in his muzzle, saw the beach which he in...
Gam Saan (The Golden Mountain)
The boat ride by schooner was a long, nauseous, disease-filled trip which saw Sheng Lee lose his meals more times tha nhe cared to admit on the six-month boat ride from the Chinese port town of Shanghai to a city which a few years ago was nothing more...
War Paint
The vixen before the mirror took one last look before her night out on the town. That mirror had always held a special place in her heart- it was the same mirror that her mother had used when she was her age, in heat for the right fox who it turned...
Natural Science- Hyperspace
"So you see class, the entire universe is composed like a gigantic machine made up of interlocking wheels. All the events of this universe are governed by laws of physics- Buddha called these immutable, unchanging laws 'Dharmakaya' and he also believed...
SPQR Chapter 7
No sooner had Martellus Lisenius entered the Senate than a feeling of dread encompassed him. The wolf looked out across the seats and saw other Senators who had just been sworn in (elections were out of the question, one of the new "reforms" the new...
Joyland
"Mom, why do I feel so weak all the time" Daniel said to his mother, a lioness who could not restrain tears as she told her son, who was not long for this world about the congenital leukemia he had. At times, Marisa would blame herself for her boy's...
Judith
"Beautiful as the flying legend of some leopard..." -John Crowe Ransom, "Judith of Bethulia" Hunger. Thirst. These two sensations had dominated the people of Bethulia for the longest time. The citizens of this small town, located in the...
Dream Operator
And so the circle was complete as Caleb the wolf looked into his cub's golden eyes after his wife's delivery at Virgil Orthodox- he was like this at one point in the past. He was just a cub once, suckling on his mother's teats, becoming bipedal and...