I Like to Watch...Eighth Glance
It started off promisingly enough, and I had no idea my life was about to change. Moving for work, I needed a place to stay in an unfamiliar city. My new employers gave me a referral to an accommodation agency and I took it from there. After rejecting...
Epiphany
I looked across at my boy. The wolf tried to give me a smile but failed for once in his life. A telling point; I always thought he would laugh at the devil. Yet here, in my hour of need, he could not. "Are you sure you are ok Ryan?" "Yes." He knew I...
Tribute
I was seething all the way from my father's study to the outer walls of our compound, and so I had not realised I had gone so far. My anger had given my hindpaws wings, and none of the family functionaries who saw me in my progress had seemed inclined...
A New Appreciation
I never gave my boyfriend credit for creativity before. I guess I never gave him credit for a lot of things. That's kind of how I ended up in this mess. I mean, he is a cop, so he should be good at investigating shit. It turned out he was damn good at...
Needs
It had been a long day. They all were for me, my first year of university was not going well, mostly because of money. At eighteen earning enough to keep yourself and study full time was not an easy thing to do especially in one of the most expensive...
Back on the Horse
The music was too loud, the clientele too young, and the drinks were too fucking expensive. Apart from that, I was having an awesome night. Standing by the bar I sipped my beer and eyed up the androgynous beauties sharing their witty put downs and...
The Bear Necessities
The electronic tinkle of poker machines going through their happy cycle of false hope reverberated through the bar. I had long since learned to tune them out or the artificially happy snappy music would have turned me into an axe murderer. Unlike the...
Yo Momma
It was a seriously shitty job. I knew it, and I didn't mind so much. Oh, I knew I got no respect, and my prospects were practically nil and I would go fucking crazy one of these days and my family were embarrassed at their low-rent son and his fucking...
Inkerman Street - Part 1
It was cold, one of those days where your breath comes out looking like a dragon's and you can feel the sting as the wind whips along the road and hammers your face. I shivered a little, pulling my coat around me tighter as I got off the tram and began...
Payment
I woke to the grey dawn, a pale and gibbous offering this early just barely insinuating it's way into my bedroom like an assassin; and to the figure of a real assassin, his eyes wide and staring. I felt the touch of steel, and in spite of my...
Meeting Half Way: Or, Joy of Brie.
The lion stood fidgeting nervously. His mane felt a little too scratchy, and his tail swished with the agitated flick of a distracted kitty. It was this place, of course... As he waited with rapidly increasing impatience, he tried to distract himself...
Reminiscing.........Cody
My husband was perfect, so I felt churlish in the extreme whenever anything he did pissed me off. But I couldn't help it. Like today, for example. He was such a do it yourself nut, always insisting on playing the handy horse instead of getting in a...