Track and Field: Part 21 - Demons
Red _"RAAAAARRGHHH!"_ _Lee comes at me--a blur of cobalt blue fur and white fists, his eyes red and trailing crimson vapors. My heart quivers. My legs quiver. My arms shudder as I somehow get my paws up in time to block his furious punches. The...
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...
Track & Field: Part 26 - Live Forever
Lee It's odd to know you'll never see someone again, especially someone who'd had enough life and vigor for a handful of people, who you never thought would go out in such a gruesome way. I'd known Devrol Hull since I was eight. Uncle Arthur had...
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...
Track and Field: Part 20 - Almost Lover
Mindy I couldn't look Trace in the eye, even though I knew his great silver head was turned towards me as I drove. "Mindy," he sighed. "Why didn't you tell him?" After we'd left _Perks--_having delivering our news to Sasha--we retreated to the...
Strangers After All: part VIII
I couldn't remember the last time I felt so warm. There was the blanket, which I guess Deacon draped over us at some point in the night, but there was the comfort of him too. He was something that I wished I'd found sooner, and I never wanted to loose...
Salem Rose Host Club: "The Performance."
"Hello?" I mewed timidly, taking apprehensive steps down the hall. I stared around anticipating Cooper to leap out and scare the shit out of me again, but I saw no one. And this hall went on forever--door after door after door. This building had to be...
Salem Rose Host Club: "The Appointment."
It was a typical Wednesday afternoon--nothing special--just me, myself, and Isometry homework for math class. I fucking hate math. Luckily, and to brighten my mood a bit, I'd been able to lay claim to my favorite booth at Starbucks to study in. I...
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 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 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 7 - "Blood Ties"
7 Up north it was cold, but Canada was always cold to a degree. Still, Ben and his younger brother Jerry hadn't adapted to the climate yet. Their impromptu flight from the USA (or their _reassignment,_ as their boss had put it) was only three weeks...