Costume Antics
COSTUME ANTICS Shel wobbled in place, feeling hot and stuffy. The chubby Irish Setter's fur was drooping with sweat. "Andy," he groaned, "can we pull apart a sec? It's hard to...
Dane and Bertie: Creamsicles
DANE AND BERTIE: CREAMSICLES The abysmal summer heat left Dane Bennett draped over his bed, looking more like a thick, cooked noodle covered in fur than a Lontramar. His...
Rabbit Heart Pt. 3 - Ch. 10
Chapter 10 "Okay," Nola said, arms crossed. My metal arm lay across the desk behind her, plates removed so she could get at its guts and fix what I'd doubtless jarred loose throwing it against the wall...
Rabbit Heart Pt. 3 - Ch. 4
Chapter 4 A month after our kittens were born, on a sweltering and humid July morning, I had my first real brush with death on the _Sea Fang_. Coincidentally, it was the day after our sixteenth birthday....
RH3 Incoming
I am hard at work editing the flippin' heck out of _Rabbit Heart_ part 3. It's very near to completion, but I want to make sure I get it all as clean and polished as I can before I start posting. The massive revisions required for parts 1 and 2...
Rabbit Heart Pt. 3 - Prologue
PROLOGUE Father approached the great, smoldering hole in the wall of the prison, his electric blue eyes taking in every detail with the intense curiosity of a scholar studying...
Rabbit Heart, Pt. 2 - Epilogue
Epilogue Farewells I stood with my toes digging into the sand, hot and grainy and the most terrifyingly beautiful feeling in my life. My ears had mostly stopped ringing, and I...
Rabbit Heart Pt. 2 - Ch. 16
Sixteen Flight Leon and I stood there, holding hands, looking at Agnes and wondering what to do with her. I didn't want her around me ever again. I hadn't wanted her to die,...
Rabbit Heart Pt. 2 - Ch. 15
Fifteen The Secret I reached in every direction I could to grab the ladder I'd seen as darkness roared past my ears, but all my fingers found was more air. I felt like I was...
Rabbit Heart Pt. 2 - Ch. 14
Fourteen The Search Agnes stared across at me from her stool, gauging my face. I hadn't spoken since we woke up from our little power nap after she nearly tore me in half with...
Rabbit Heart Pt. 2 - Ch. 13
Thirteen Consequences "I am... disappointed," the Warden said, hefting his girth from side to side as we sat in a line in Agnes's lab. Five Scrofa stood outside the doorway,...
Rabbit Heart Pt. 2 - Ch. 12
Twelve Panic Turned out it was _not worth it_. Every bowel movement over the next week was pure agony. I won't go into detail, but it was gross and painful and blood was...