"The Wild King", chapter 6
It was nighttime outside, and the moon shone down on us with a generous luster, reflecting off the water of the pond and crystalizing in the droplets from the waterfall that drowned out a large amount of distant noise. The air was damp, as was the...
"The Wild King", chapter 5
I had a dream that I saw myself as a child. I stood at the front porch of a beautiful home, with a luscious garden in the yard. The fields sprawled out with life, magnolia trees and willows standing guard as I descended the staircase to the yard. His...
"The Wild King", chapter 4
I awoke early, and it was raining. King had made a sufficient roof so that it did not come through the ceiling onto us, but I found that the ground was cold, the wet from the outside world seeming to linger inside to us. He was curled around me,...
"The Wild King", chapter 3
It had been a little less than a week since the day King built me the house. We went on daily explorations around the woods as he showed me how to map my location. I was getting better at being aware of where I was in relation to the shelter, which I'd...
"The Wild King", chapter 2
I sat there for a moment, thinking about what it said. I didn't want to ask the next question, but I did anyway. "How did I do that?" "With your offering, last night". My head sunk downward again toward my lap, and my hands reached for...
"The Wild King", chapter 1
I broke up with Buck. It's hard to explain why I did it, and I could tell by the look on his face that he was more confused than I was, but the fact remains that it happened and it's over. He's far too good a man to love someone like me. I could see it...
"The Wild King" epilogue pt. 2
My next few months were filled with reading and conversations with Zee. I interacted with no one else, though I never thought much of that. The tranquility of being in-between the brutal indifference of The Wild and the overbearing noise and chaos of...
"The Wild King" epilogue pt. 1
The first place I went to was Buck's trailer. I had to drive with the radio off, it made me feel sick. I drove nude, as well, and dressed when I parked the truck in his yard. The sensation of clothing on my body was too much to bear, and as I stepped...
"Fixing the Faucet"
At the door stood Maureen, a short red fox, female, her hair groomed to be wavy down to her shoulders. She had her purse in her hand and was dressed nice for the occasion--a blouse and slacks, unlike the usual t-shirt and jeans she usually wore out and...
"The Wild King", Final Chapter
King set me down just outside of the cabin, carrying the fox carcass inside and tossing it on the floor. He looked back to me, then to the wolf, who had grown restless in her loneliness, having relieved herself several times in the cabin. The interior...
The Price of Being Loved
"For fuck's sake , fox, your breath smells so strong'a liquor I can practically tell what brand you've been drinkin'." A heavy-set male wolf was reclined back in his creaking computer chair in the back office of his convenience store, a small office...
"Call it What You Need"
Thursday evening, an empty house. Nico laid on his sofa in dusty atmosphere of his family's single-wide trailer in pajama pants and a loose black t-shirt, scrolling through his phone. Bills were due, and after getting let go from his job, Nico had been...