Easy Grade
"So when you're all finished up, you'll give me an A on my paper?" "What? Absolutely not." With a pouting frown, the 18 year old university student removed his tongue from the tip of the teacher's length, a hard glint in his eyes. His professor,...
Pollution
Ahoi ye old mate, glad you came to this date, many years from last time it might be. So let's celebrate now, with good drink and good chow, and tales from the depth of the sea. But beware that this truth, that this tale of my youth, though it...
The Cave
"Belle, are you sure this is such a good idea?" The pink girl groaned and rolled her eyes at her twin. "Come on, Beau, where's your sense of adventure?" Beau balled his paws into fists and looked into the darkness ahead of them. "I think I left...
the report
Your name is Thoramien S'itasvar, nickname Tora. You are a female cat morph, born on Mirandis 3 in 4278 using artificial incubation. You were charged with attempted piracy in 4290 on Kuridas 2, but the charges were dropped. You are currently working...
consequences
Arden had enough, crying, both sad and angry, he kicked a stone into the nearby property, hoping it would destroy something. Maybe it made a dent in a car, or hit a window. He half hoped for the sound of an impact, but there was only rustling of...
Noir
I knew she was trouble, the moment she set her hooves into my office. The lazy Friday afternoon sunlight cut visible rays through the dancing dust particles, disturbed by the slight breeze that came in with her. It gave the mess of empty pizza...
the ceremony
Every young doe and buck loved the autumn festival. But every young doe and every young buck also feared the autumn festival. Once a year, in October, before the snow made travelling difficult, the tribes all came together. It had been like that...
incubation
"... Warning! Evacuate! Hull breach! Emergency power low. Life support critical! Warning! Evacuate!...." Lurien jumped up, sweaty and shaken. Her helmet had hit the instrument panel in the cramped cockpit of the prospector shuttle. There was no...
Sometimes failure offers the best prize
Teth?ula breathed deeply and clenched his hands into fists. His heart was beating a mile a minute and his body was shaking, his eyes clenched shut. Around him, all was silent. He was alone in a wooden hut, told to get himself ready. He had to calm...
the journey
Like it was common in the wolf tribe, in the months before the coming-of-age ceremony, Torim was sent on a spirit journey. Clothed in nothing but his natural fur and equipped with nothing but his own fangs, he had been sent into the wilderness, to...
The Deal
"There you are! Where have you been again? Have you forgotten the toadhide? Where is it?" Faye sighed. Her stepmom was again ill-spirited. "Mom, you know Nissa won't let me kill anything. I got you one that a snake choked up." The teenaged deer...
iv. Murasaki Shibori (6~15~07)
They've got all kinds of performing arts, a big theater community, a-" "creative writing?" ayumi rolled to a stop at the light and looked at murasaki with a hopeful gleam in her eye. murasaki thought for a moment.