Stress Relief for Finals
They cuffed her hands on the legs of the desk at the front of the room. Once front, now middle of the room, moved there so she might be at the center. Easy to spot. Easy to surround. Diagonally she lay, on her back. The cuffs completely unnecessary. So...
In Another Life Pt. 4
The first floor of House Cirrus usually acted as a large antechamber. Along its walls a spiral stairway ascended the tower and descended into the basement, and a mosaic depicting the family history of House Cirrus stretched its circumference. Its floor...
In Another Life: Interlude 1
_Dear Lady Alabaster,_ Receiving your letter seemed odd. I thought you might simply come find me, but I suppose it makes sense. I have heard you were ill and bedridden, though scant details otherwise. Still, I am glad that, despite your...
Milking Kaimana the Crusher
Humid and hot, Kaimana appreciated summers here. Her leathery sharkskin soaked in the moisture-thickened air. She reclined on a wicker chair, looking out over a balcony into a pond that caught the last rays of twinkling sunlight. Kaimana sighed and dug...
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...
Family Secrets Pt. 2
"So... how is she?" Even over the phone, Jayla's voice carried a sultry smoke to it that took Leanna back to warm nights spent together. Leanna had texted Jayla the news about her parents, but only now finally called her to talk. She used her mother's...
Family Secrets Pt. 1
White cedar trees in every direction, that's how Leanna knew she was home. The tall, spindly things always made her imagine Earth as a porcupine--the trees its needles. But it was the smell of cedar, mixed with the scent of dirt, that really got to...
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...
Broken Hero, Shattered Timeline 2
Link woke chained in a cell at the bottom of Hyrule castle. The wolf's forest green and white pelt peppered with corruption, fur wilting to black or dark violet. His now yellow eyes shone in the dark cell. Someone had chained his paws above him. He...
A Peacock's Blossom
Mira needed out of her life. The peacock just broke up with her longtime boyfriend, and just everything was in the air. Friends, the workspace they shared, the apartment whose lease was only halfway through. She did not tell her boyfriend where she was...
Becoming His Hen
Liolyn touched Finsaren's thigh, breath bated in her throat. The stellar jay's scaly hand brushed along the forest green dragon's scales. They were supple as water, yielding and pleasant till she hit a firm wall of muscle. The feral dragon grumbled and...
The Real Deal
Botha, from a big scale, was a strip of spires and steel on the planet. A metropolitan band of concrete and plastic that went both ways for a hundred miles. This, coupled with how hard it was to find natural lands not owned by private firms that...