Strangers After All: Part IX
Deacon's head was bowed and clasped in his paws. I felt terrible for making him feel obligated to tell me his secrets. I mean, they were secrets for a reason. I think that both Tabitha and I agreed, though, that he'd feel much better once he got all...
Never Let Me Go
Jameson and I were both eight when he got into a car wreck with his family and he broke both of his arms. His parents got a few bad cuts, but nothing more serious. I remember his red casts and how proud he was of them, how I (as his best friend) was...
Lifted Higher: Chapter 2 - "It's A Date"
2 I hold Robin's phone number tight in my paws as Paul and I walk back to our apartment. I found the little paper scrap to be a bone of fortuitousness tossed to me: the literal and proverbial dog; to Paul, the paper is more of a symbol of his life...
Track & Field: Part 25 - Red Hands
Sasha Back when I was a kit I had a lot of troubles, and a real big one was getting to sleep. But I wasn't afraid of the dark, and I wasn't afraid of anything lurking under my bed ready to snatch me from beneath my covers. Monsters like that weren't...
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...
Barred: Chapter 5
5 The closer to their apartment the two got, the harder the rain fell. It slithered down buildings in rivulets, struck their faces like tossed pebbles, and made it near impossible to navigate the streets through. Vaughn didn't mind getting soaked,...
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...
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 2
2 Nomac was never sure how to feel about the bar. He had things he appreciated about it--the dull lighting, cheap drinks, and horny guys for instance--but he had things he hated about it more--the horrible music, cliché celebrity photos on the walls,...