Respawn (preview)
"You ever seen anything like it, Ghost?" she asked, chewing on the end of her antenna. "I don't think so, Orchid," she shook her head. "She was like that when you found her?" The ibis' eye moved up and down in her cephalic fluid as she nodded. ...
The Mind Killer
"Even nothing is something." (Jerry Seinfeld) [FLICK!] ['-ment, 'void,' while it's sometimes compared with the Greeks' 'aether,' is also quite distinct from it in its own way. It connects with the importance of space, silence, everything that...
What Ships Are For
"Nobody's gonna show you the way, nobody's gonna hold your hand..." (Zeal & Ardor) "We can't even imagine what it was like for people on boats back in those days," Fran's roommate had said. "When they'd cross the ocean, it was like, on this...
Tears In Rain
'If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it'll spend its whole life believing it's stupid.' (Albert Einstein) "Ugh, really?" It'd already taken Fran half an hour to get to the bridge. It'd been raining that day, fittingly, she...
And I Must Scream
"You go to hell for the company, and to heaven for the peace and quiet." "Sometimes it's more gradual than people talk about," Fran's roommate had tried to explain. "Like, on TV you'll see oh, this person's reacting to this specific crisis, she's...
Water Flowing Underground
"After everything, it's still you." (Undertale, Genocide Run) "It was you, wasn't it?" The humanoid ant queen had stared Fran down severely from her earthen throne. "You killed the ants, didn't you?" The queen had brandished a bloodied ant skull in...
The Tortoise and the Hare
Rakim felt a cold bead of sweat dripping down his back. "Feel your 'sins crawling down your back,' buddy?" The bat looked up at her, mouth agape. "Huh?" The hare winked at him. "Relax, I'm just kidding around. Good luck, man!" she chirped. ...
This Machine
_'Someone once told me, there's a land of dreams, where our lives are never done... they go on, and on...'_ (Beads of Tears, Mermaid's Scar) "What do you see?" What a loaded question this always was, she thought. He was doing his best, she couldn't...
Boss Rush
The kangaroo laid down on his back, spreading his legs and raising his knees as the pangolin knelt in front of him facing him. The kangaroo lifted his pelvis off the ground so the pangolin could slip his knees forward under the kangaroo's thighs around...
Second Nature
"Oh, they came up with something new in prosthetics just last year, it turns out," his dragon head turned to the bat as they gamed, back to sitting side by side in his apartment facing his screen, just as they'd been before. "Oh, what?" he tilted his...
Emulator
It was their fourth date. They were back at Ogun's apartment that time, listening to music on shuffle and talking as they sat gaming on his couch. The chimera, amused to hear a very old track coming on right after they'd just heard a very modern one...
Flame War
Despite his best efforts, Rakim's fears around his Irshad's ongoing holy war against the flames continued to grow. "Do... Do you think you're going to be a firefighter for the rest of your life, mother?" Her countenance darkened a bit at this. "I know...