Reconnecting: Dina
Clothes shopping was special to Manny. He only did so two or three times a year, either because a special occasion was creeping up or he simply needed some new digs. With his family living across the ocean in the old country of Italy, he didn’t have...
Reconnecting: Nikki
Manny preferred going out to buy his own groceries. What was a painfully menial chore to most adults was a soothing exercise in choice making. It was so much more satisfying to wander the aisles, exploring the tactile feel of something like a cardboard...
Neapolitan Farm - Commission for rajanwolffang
"Looks like the new guy's here," Charlotte noted dryly as she looked out the window, cigarette between her fingers. She blocked the pane with her bovine frame, the sunlight eclipsed by her gargantuan curves. Her black hair, styled into an inverted bob,...
Glorious
Mitchell woke up in a pit of fatigue, head, limbs, and body beneath something like a boulder. His eyes fluttered open to the image of pure fuzz, a disjointed conglomerate of thatched ceiling and crossbeams. They were not recognized as such, not until...
Don't Meet Your Heroes Part 1 - Commission for Tiniestpeen
Logan Schwanz had experienced claustrophobia in the past, but nothing quite like this. Arms laid out in front of his head to form a triangle, chest flat to the stainless steel floor, sides squeezed by the wall, he was shrunk into the absolute smallest...
Off to the Races - Commission for Rajanwolffang
Carmella felt big and strong at the helm of her daddy’s 750. Never the type to be wooed by big vehicles like just about every man she knew, the appeal fell on her suddenly the first time she revved the 6.7 liter V8 diesel and felt the leviathan machine...
Don't Meet Your Heroes Part 2 - Commission for Tiniestpeen
“[i]Whaaat?[/i]" groaned a familiar voice. In spite of the whole situation, it made Logan's heart flutter. “It's me. Open up. I wanna show you something." “What is it?" “Come on. You gotta see. Just come here." “[i]Uggggghhh.[/i]" A few seconds...
Sharing the Herd - Commission for Konu-san
The first thing Temlock felt when he regained consciousness was the terrible itchiness and dryness that had beset his throat. His mouth was open, bringing in great huffs of the dry grassland air. He stirred to life with a cough and wheeze before his...
Horse Roulette Part 1 - Commission for rajanwolffang
Anyone who knew her would tell you that Carmella was a hard worker. Her daddy didn't raise no slacker. She did what she was told and didn't give no lip. Whatever her folks needed of her, whether it was cooking in the kitchen with her momma, cleaning...
Rat Kiss
Even through a landscape as regular as Darmia’s, Kale could still see the fractures in the crust which swelled as plateaus into the sky. They dominated the horizon and everything beyond it, their jagged facades struggling to fall into the place they...
Platinum to Gold
Levi made a brisk pace coming back to the house. His entire body rang with fatigue, aching most terribly within his feet paws and up into his lithe, vascular legs. In contrast to the burn in his muscles was the great chill of so much sweat which had...
Dutch Sandwich
Mr. Rodriguez had noticed an odd shift in atmosphere around the farm. He couldn't quite put his finger on it, but something about the way his farm hands were acting was… off. They were altogether a spritely group of men, old and young, the kind who,...