Helfer's Busy Day, Chapter 6
Helfer finished pulling up his trousers, shaking Vin's paw free from his sheath. "You're turnin' me down?" Vin said, rocking back on his heels. "Sorry," Helfer said. "Another time? I need to find that fox." Vin sat on the floor as Helfer...
Helfer's Busy Day, Chapter 5
The sun was getting rather warm, and Vin's rear was nice and shapely under his too-tight pants, and so why not? Helfer got up, stretched, and padded after the other weasel. Once Vin heard him coming, he chuckled and sped up, weaving through the crowd...
Helfer's Busy Day Chapter 4
"I really don't know," Helfer said. "Honest." Alister pressed a paw to his head. "Who else would know, if not you?" "What about his wife's family?" "I wasn't aware he spent any time with them, since Lady Vinton is living down south." ...
Helfer's Busy Day, Chapter 3
He'd never been one to waste too much time on decisions. An open door across the hall from him beckoned; quickly, he slipped inside and pressed himself to the wall next to the door, listening. Dereath had indeed been coming up to the stairs, and to...
Helfer's Busy Day, Chapter 2
The run could wait, after all; summer was drawing to an end, and there wouldn't be many more fine days, but this looked to be one. He jogged to the main entrance and slipped inside the wooden doors to the cool of the stone hallway. The waking...
Helfer's Busy Day
The rooms at the Lonely Cock were everything the chambers in the palace were not: wooden, over-ventilated, dusty, and prone to bug infestations. They were also open to non-palace residents, the overroding consideration on the nights when Helfer...
Comforts
"At least it's stopped raining." Fox, curled up with his muzzle resting on his tail, didn't even move. "If you say that again," he said, "I will throw you over the side." "Just trying to put a positive light on things." Raccoon had slumped...
Love Match Prologue
Let's assume you've got a job. Okay, you're a call center employee or a concession stand worker or a guy who makes tennis balls in a factory or a system administrator. That's a real thing, right? My agent was talking to one when she was getting my...
Unconventional
Conventions wore Brad out, these days. As a young ferret, he'd stayed up 'til three in the morning and been up bright and early at eight to squeeze the most out of the day. Now, more years later than he cared to admit to any but his closest friends, he...
Bridges, part 1
_Seriously_, Amir thought, _how the hell do people meet each other?_ He was sitting in a chair in the Foxed Page, a bookstore in the Riverwalk district of the city of Gateway, a new Elthia Jones mystery lying forgotten in his lap. Across the Mystery...
Disposing of Sharps
"Gawn, get in!" "There's no need to shove," the scruffy coyote said, keeping his head high as he stepped through the doorway. "I merely wanted to inspect the premises before..." "Get in!" The bear set a paw against the small of his back and...
Aquifers
_Here's another long story that I wrote with a friend who wanted me to write more about otters. Which led to [Snow Days](%5C) when another friend saw this one ... This is the story that begins the sequence published as "Waterways" through Sofawolf...