Addiction - Chapter Four: Scar Tissue
Addiction Chapter Four Scar Tissue By: Rufus Quentin September 16, 1998 Dustin burst into the kitchen on a warm afternoon in mid-September heaving a heavy cardboard box which he promptly and gracelessly let crash onto the breakfast nook table. I...
Addiction - Chapter Twenty-four: Family Ties
**Addiction** Chapter Twenty-Four Family Ties By: Rufus Quentin April 14, 1999 It may seem trivial, but one of the most important moments during the first few months of my pregnancy was the day I couldn't fit into my own jeans anymore. Well,...
Addiction - Chapter Twenty-six: Anti-Prom
**Addiction** Chapter Twenty-six Anti-Prom By: Rufus Quentin May 15, 1999 So it came to pass that after dinner I'd settled into my room with a book, just like I had the weekend before that and the one before it. All the dresses I needed to make...
Addiction - Chapter Twenty-Two: Boneless
**Addiction** Chapter Twenty-two Boneless By: Rufus Quentin Early March, 1999 This time I thought it was just test-taking anxiety, that uneasiness I'm sure every student gets every once in awhile when sitting down with an exam they are, shall we...
Addiction - Chapter Twenty-three: Pink Turns to Blue
**Addiction** Chapter Twenty-Three Pink Turns to Blue By: Rufus Quentin Late March, 1999 It was around the very beginning of spring when my denial reached its limits. I remember sitting in the living room under a blanket playing Nintendo,...
Addiction - Chapter Twenty-nine: Chase
**Addiction** Chapter Twenty-nine Chase By Rufus Quentin July and August, 1999 "Paper or plastic?" I asked for the umpteenth time that day. Perhaps the first one-hundred and ninety-nine times the question may have come across as if with genuine...
Changing the Rules
**Changing the Rules** By: Rufus Quintin For: Vickfox For the first time that semester it hurt to be outside. The post-mid-term-cold-snap left him wishing for his heavy jacket, another thing to call home about. He found himself rubbing his paws for...
Addiction - Chapter Twenty-eight: Twenty-four Frames
**Addiction** Chapter Twenty-eight Twenty-four Frames By Rufus Quentin Late June, 1999 It was hard to believe that the day had come. The attainability of graduation only started to sink in when the cross-hatches on the back of my now frayed...
Addiction - Chapter Twenty-seven: Lies
**Addiction** Chapter Twenty-seven Lies By Rufus Quentin May 16 through 19, 1999 Eighteen and a half years is not enough time to give you perspective on things. You think you're a master because you're the oldest of your friends, because you...
Addiction - Chapter Twenty-five: All Adequate Things
**Addiction** Chapter Twenty-Five All Adequate Things By: Rufus Quentin Mid-April - May 15, 1999 Our muzzles turned to the unexpected chime of the doorbell. Instinctively our paws left each other's bodies. We sat upright in less than an instant....
Prioritization and its Merits
Prioritization and its Merits By: Rufus Quentin For: SilverRat For the first time in what Rex felt ashamed to calculate how long, he had his arm around a naked girl in his bed. Of course he had given it to her appropriately, going three rounds in...
Helix - Advent
**Helix** Advent By: Rufus Quintin For: Kibbles~and~bits The husky lifted his muzzle, pulling himself back into consciousness after having slipped into a state somewhere between sleep and awareness. It took his eyes a moment or so to focus on...