Track and Field: Part 10 - Red
Red I rapped my knuckles against the glass screen door to Lee's parent's house. I tried to make it as rhythmic as I could; it turned into a long, bony trundle that vibrated the glass. It was how Mrs. Hawthorne knew that it was me. For the first month...
Track and Field: Part 9
I woke up and Lee was gone. I also couldn't move. My body was so stiff that to wiggle a toe seemed impossible. Were my toes even still attached? Since I couldn't crane my neck to look around it was as though I was nothing but a dismembered head...
Track and Field: Part 8 - Red
Red "Sweetheart, what's the matter?" my mother chirped before daintily nibbling on the piece of steak that dribbled juices down the end of her fork, her ears fluttering at the taste. "You haven't touched your T-bone." "Very peculiar." My father said...
Track and Field: Part 6 - Lee
Lee I felt sick to my stomach. The whole drive in Sasha's car was giving me time to think, but, as much as there was for me to mull on, all I managed to do was draw a blank. My mind was scoured of any thought whatsoever; completely, eerily,...
New Generation of Heroes: Chapter 5 - "Seen the Light"
5 Norma Cossette had lived in tiny Barton Lake, Kansas since she was a squealing infant. The now matronly raccoon went through twelve years of school in that small town, then fifty-three more working job after job, dreaming of bigger places and of a...
New Generation of Heroes: Chapter 4 - "Manifest Destiny"
4 Doctor Conway asked Rhy to see him after class. The wolf (reasonably) had no idea what to expect. He thought about it and realized he didn't know _who_ to expect either. Would Conway be _Conway_ when the student entered his office? Before Seth...
New Generation of Heroes: Chapter 3 - "Eyes"
3 Kendall Conway (aka Skinwalker) came onto the hero scene in the early eighties after a devastating explosion (which he now knew was backfire from his manifesting powers) swallowed his home and killed his family. He'd been visiting from college at...
New Generation of Heroes: Chapter 2 - "A Job to Do"
2 Straddling atop the ledge of one of League College's study halls, a white-furred wolf tucked his custom Fabrique National .28 back into the inner pocket of his denim jacket and watched as his target continued on his way. Thank goodness. The...
New Generation of Heroes: Chapter 1 - "It Comes Soon"
1 Rhykard Dean, sitting Indian-style on his well-made dorm room bed, cleared his throat out of awkwardness as his shirtless roommate dropped his cargo shorts and snapped the elastic band of his new, Atlas the Superdog underwear with glee. The toned,...
Track and Field: Part 24 - Fix You
Arthur _"Papa?"_ _"........."_ _"Papaaaaaa?"_ _"................."_ _I feel his little paws atop my chest, the warmth of his tiny fingers blooming on the spot right over my heart as he shakes me; his sharp claws yank on my fur and pinch the...
Track and Field: Part 23 - I Will Wait
Sasha This chick... "Kelly? How do you know us again?" I asked, trying to keep pace with the ermine. "Lee," she simply said. "How do you know Lee?" "Ren-Fair." "Ren-what?" I heard Red panting. I kept forgetting he couldn't keep up with us. I'd...
Barred: Chapter 6
6 Nomac sulked behind his espresso machines--Old Bessie I and II--and fiddled with the strings of his apron. The hulking, brew-spitting monstrosities blocked his few of any customers standing just on the other side of the counter, and he was glad...