A Good Joke
"Melissa! Melissa!" A familiar voice called out from behind the vixen as she stood at her locker, getting ready to head home from school for the day. "Hey, Melissa!" "Just a minute, Tom." Someone tugged her tail. "Hey, Melissa!" The vixen flicked...
An Afternoon Off
Arrd hiked along the river, his thumbs hooked under the straps of his heavy pack. Bright sunlight bathed the young coyote's gray and tan fur in unseasonable warmth. The quiet peacefulness of the open land was a welcome respite after spending all...
Painfully Exposed
Amanda carefully placed her phone on a shelf in the upstairs hallway, leaning it against a picture frame. It was already recording video, and not a moment too soon. Her younger brother Alex was on his way to his bedroom for the night, but the coyote...
Not Quite Footsie
Melissa leaned against the gymnasium wall, her arms folded. It was 'free activity' gym class, and the vixen was bored to tears. Most of the students had organized into games of basketball or other sports. Melissa, though, wasn't interested in playing...
The Princess and Her Pet, Part One
Princess Rebecca stood at the edge of the elegant, semi-circular balcony that ringed her bedroom, high atop one of the castle's many tall, white-stone towers. She placed her hands on the golden banister that capped the railing of graceful arches and...
Nutcracker Season Returns
Sally stood in the living room, staring at the family Christmas tree. Lights of every hue decorated it in shimmering swirls of color. A few presents already sat beneath its green boughs, some neatly wrapped with paper and bows, others in artsy gift...
A Painful Challenge
Sally waited in the hallway, just outside her older brother's bedroom door. It was early in the morning, and the young lioness was still in her sky-blue pajamas. Her tufted tail behind her, and wicked excitement coiled in her belly. There was a new...
Nutcracker Season - Part One
\*\*\* 1. \*\*\* "Hi everyone! It's Sally here, your favorite Mighty Huntress." The lioness spoke into her phone, her voice hushed. "I'm about to play a prank on my older brother Max." Sally turned the phone towards the half-decorated Christmas...
Nutcracker Season - Part Three
\*\*\* 6. \*\*\* “Let go, Max!” Sarah glared at her younger brother. The lioness clutched one end of a large roll of festive wrapping paper, the last one in the house. “Now!” “No way!” The geeky younger lion holding tight to the other end glared...
A New Holiday
"Where _is_ Sam, anyway?" Melissa dug a text book out of her locker, and shoved it into her backpack. "Isn't he walking home with you again?" "As far as I know." Amanda stood nearby, her thumbs hooked under the straps of her pink and purple backpack....
A Painful Wake-Up Call
Melissa grinned to herself as she spotted her younger brother standing in the hallway, digging through the pile of clean clothes outside his bedroom door. Messy little runt, didn't he know how to put anything away? Not that it mattered to her, as long...
Nutcracker Season - Part Two
\*\*\* 4. \*\*\* Fresh snow crunched under Sally's winter boots. It cascaded all around the young lioness in swirling curtains of white. She smiled, her golden-furred ears perked beneath the hood of her coat. Sally loved the snow, and this was the...