So Long as You Are Not Afraid
The same dream again. Not a dream. A nightmare. Not a nightmare, though. A memory relived sure as gears embrace each other again and again to wind the clock: Karniel’s arms bound behind him—the membrane of his wings shorn off his arms, even the long...
Ruining the Streamer
Marshall could not believe his luck. Despite his streaming metrics telling him almost all his viewers were men, somehow, the hottest woman Marshall had ever met singled him out a bar, recognizing him and claiming she was a huge fan. She had dark red...
Amped Up
Gunter had been following the Toxics town to town for their Galar Tour. The punk band got their start playing in underground clubs in Hammerlocke, so when they blew into town again to shred through a set in an abandoned warehouse, the city treated them...
The Houndoom's New Toy
Abel straightened the collar of his red button-up, making sure he looked fine. He undid the hair-tie holding his dreads together in the back and let them fall around his face, remembering what the barber told him about hiding his baby face since he...
Giving Into Instinct
“I thought you quit,” Quinn said from the open sliding door. Damien’s nostrils twitched, scent of his daughter a miasma spreading from the door into the muggy, autumn air. He couldn’t manage a smile or to wipe the dryness from his throat, so he...
Won't Bite
Chuck kept one slitted, yellow eye on his poolboy while he sunned himself. Lylle, the poolboy, couldn't help but keep sneaking glances at the big pine green gator. It was rare a customer actually stayed outside while he worked, much less in a bright...
Alpha to Omega
"Hey Mel, I don't know about this," Cain muttered into his friend's ear. Mel, a cougar much taller than the 5'6" caracal standing beside him, hissed back, "Quiet bro, I can hear them coming." Both felines' ears turned to the stairway as they heard...
Deepening His Brother's Tastes
Caliper unlocked the door and sighed when silence greeted him. No one home. House to himself for a precious few moments before his older brother got back from practice. The young buck slung his backpack on the couch and crossed the small living room to...
Rite of the Long Hunt
Winter brandished harsh, charging blizzards in the Saramende Wilds. Days of sunless flurries pushed in quick as floodwaters until the long plains became a sea of snow. When those first storms of the season finally broke, a still blanket of frost left...
Breaking in the Kitten
Hyenas could be quiet. Nimble did not wish to believe it. To be snuck up on mortified him. Him, a cheetah, faster than anyone on the savannah, with keen enough hearing and smell to catch one of those mutts. Unless the mutt kept their approach downwind...
Broken Hero, Shattered Timeline
Link fell to his knees, the wolf panting as Ganon towered over him. The great, red maned warthog was easily three times the hero's size. Link reached for his nearby sword, but Ganon grabbed his paw. The monster's beastly hand big enough to close around...
Becoming a Good Boy
Sometimes jobs go wrong. I wasn't mad at my crew for that. I was mad at myself for getting caught, hauled paw over foot into the back of a cop car in a muzzle and cuffs. Now I waited in a small, dingy interview room, cuffs still on and looped into the...