Tiger Talk
"I think you're going to need to be a little more specific, hun," the shopkeeper told Sara with a friendly smile. "You've come to a shop of near endless possibilities. Asking for 'something fun' could be interrupted a million different ways." "Oh,...
Neighbor to Desire
Part I: Fresh Air "This is exactly what we need," Jessie told her husband Trent confidently as they followed the moving truck out to the country property they had just purchased as a second home. ...
Something To Enjoy
Thursday "Everyone got everything they need? Cause once we're more than twenty miles away I ain't turning back. And even in that case I am not gonna be happy about it," Kevin said to everyone in the SUV before he turned the key. "We've checked and...
Cocked & Loaded
My eyes ached as I opened them and even then, there wasn't much to see. Ahead there was something wooden and a white plaster brick wall beyond that. Beyond that, with my poor vision, I was at a loss. I tried to move but immediately found myself in a...
Try Not To Be A Dog
It was a bright and beautiful July afternoon, on a Saturday, where in an upscale strip mall outside of a froyo shop sat a woman enjoying a copiously topped treat. With a spoonful that contained three different frogurt flavors, sprinkles, melted...
Regretfully Yours
Stillness surrounded the massively extravagant Georgian style mansion in the dead dark of cloudy night. A few distant rumbles of thunder barely broke the silence. Then there was a shattering of glass when an antique wooden chair came crashing through a...
So You Want To Be Wolves
"Wolves, huh? Sure, I can do wolves. It's more of a question of how do you want to do wolves?" replied the shopkeeper thoughtfully. The unexpected question confused Matt for a moment. "How? I guess through,...
A Bargain For Fate
Gale had been looking forward to this convention as soon as it popped up on the event calendar. Living out in the sticks like she was, it was the one time a year that she could attend one of this size so it was rightfully a very big deal to her. Held...
When The Upper Hand Has You
Taking a deep breath the wizard's apprentice, Vasily steeled his temperament for the likely confrontation to come. He made the long walk from the regal manor house out the large barn where his master's laboratory was, all the while...
I Herd You Like To Steal
\* "Do you need any help finding anything?" the red haired shopkeeper politely asked the man meandering through her store. "Me?" the man, Brady, replied. Despite being the only customer in the store at...