Track and Field: Part 4
I hate to say it, but I was about as equally captivated by the interior of that car as I was by the driver. My brain was going haywire over deciding where my attentions should lie: the pretty flashing lights, high-tech gadgets, and rumbling engine that...
Track and Field: Part 3
After hanging up the phone I hopped off of my bed and padded softy across the carpet to my bathroom. Excitement had banished any thoughts of sleep from my mind, but I was starting to feel that thick, hazy state of weariness creep in behind my eyes. I...
Track and Field: Part 2
After practice Trevor and I walked home together as usual, and although I wanted to babble on like an excitable school-girl about what had happened with Red, I didn't bother my macho friend with an obvious overdose of gayness. Trevor was a great buddy,...
Track and Field: Part 11 - Lee
Lee "One, two, three, one, two, three..." _Clang, clang-clang, Clang, clang-clang..._ Left, right-left, right, left-right... "Good," my uncle barked, his sword still humming through the air and striking with mine on precise rhythm. The blows...
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...