Todd's Coming Out (Part 10)
I didn't know when we got to sleep, but when I woke up I knew we hadn't finished the jug. I was wet all down my front and in my lap, and I could smell the alcohol. The clock said it was half past eleven. 'Aw jeez,' I said, waking Colton up as I...
Todd's Coming Out (Part 9)
Perhaps Mum hadn't known how I'd react at all, because she hugged me like she'd never expected to see me again. The whole family looked relieved I was there, and pleased to see Colton again as well. Except Felix. He got up and moved to a chair right...
Todd's Coming Out (Part 8)
Colton's good health insurance meant that he got an appointment that same afternoon. He asked for a double one and still ended up over-running by ten minutes. I barely spoke, but all the time he kept looking at me, glad I was there. Dr Comfrey was as...
New Prologue for Todd's Senior Prom
Prologue - Two years ago I wanted someone to set me on fire. Not literally though. The night I dreamed someone doused me in gasoline and lit my fur up, turning me into a screaming raccoon-shaped firebomb, I discovered what my worst fear really was. I...
Akio's House (Epilogue, with afterword)
Two Days Later I lay in the hammock thinking about what Akio had said that morning. 'There's something I need to ask you,' he said. 'It's like this. I made my will years ago, leaving everything I have to Kaede and Ayala between them. But if you're...
Akio's House (Part 6)
Deke's gravestone was brand new, marble white with black lettering spelling his name, and a quote underneath it. _'You were going you way, I was going mine.'_ Akio looked at it for a moment, then at me. 'I know that one,' I said. 'It was on that CD...
Todd's Coming Out (Epilogue - Part 2, with afterword from the author)
I sat down, grinning from ear to ear. 'You remember that something I was going to tell you, last time we were here? Before I got all caught up in a moment about what you said to Felix? It's them, for sure. You see Shiva over there? She's Mum. She told...
Todd's Coming Out (Epilogue - Part 1)
I tried to move back home after Dad said the first stage in saying sorry was to tell everyone I was welcome again and put my room back as it was. He'd started boxing all my stuff up and packing down my bed and furniture that same weekend he'd sent me...
Akio's House (Part 3)
Two years ago I had one of those feelings at breakfast where I just knew that somehow, in some way, Mum was going to make me want run away from home today. Sure enough, she soon made the fur on my back stand on end under my shirt. In front of all my...
Akio's House (Part 2)
I spent the whole lesson nervous of the sharp knives even with Akio's gentleness, but at least if he asked me why I was twitchy I could have said it was that. Not how I was imagining him putting me to sleep like he had Colton, stroking my nose like a...
Akio's House (Part 5 )
When I got up to go to the bathroom after a few hours nap, I heard the sound from downstairs. Remembering how Colton had once done the same for me as I was surely about to do for Akio, and I went down to confirm what was already unmistakable: Akio was...
Akio's House (Part 4)
Colton and I both thought we'd built up some sexual stamina in the short time we'd been together, but the session we had in Akio's front room after my story was like nothing I'd ever imagined possible. Colton worked me up using his ear on my chest and...