Christmas with Family
It was Christmas Eve. Down the kids' end of the dinner table, Nahia fidgeted uncomfortably. She was almost twelve, and at an age where the excitement of Christmas was in conflict with how uncool it was. Her younger brother Zahame was six, and in no way...
Bond of Brothers - Part 3
After breakfast - and after all three stags had the chance to cool off and calm down a little, the time came to head across town to the bike shop, to get more inner tubes and a new tyre for Dieter. Stillwater Cove was a small enough town that virtually...
A Gratuitous Taboo
My name is Zahame. I'm a dragon. And my older sister, Nahia, is a pervert. I mean... all things are relative, aren't they? A few of you may be able to visualise me better if I described myself as a kuvrahk, but if you don't, that's fine. I'm 21 years...
Bond of Brothers - Part 2
"Aw fuck!" Dieter exclaimed, squeezing his bicycle's brake levers and squealing awkwardly to a stop by the side of the road. "Dude, really? Is that your favourite word now or something?" Kristian pedaled on a few more yard, before making a slow lazy...
Bond of Brothers - Part 1
Steady, soaking rain fell throughout the evening across the small coastal town of Stillwater Cove, muffling the world with its monotonous hiss and turning everything grey as dusk fell behind a dense blanket of cloud. For two boys living in a little...
An Evening to Herself
_An Evening to Herself_ _Spring, 1981_ Kattalin stood in the bathtub, hunched over herself with the hot water of the shower cascading over her back and dripping down the underside of her thick, muscular tail and toned legs. In her hand, buzzing...
Jack Frost - Part 1
I used to get along well with my father. I have memories of being a foal riding high on the enormous stallion's broad shoulders, my fetlocks clutched tightly in his strong hands. Hands whose thick, hoof-tipped fingers bore the calluses of hard manual...
Harvey and the Unexpected Sausage Party
"HARVEY! Come on dude, we're leaving!" came an annoyed voice, yelled around the echoing concrete paradise of the college changeroom. A murmur of other voices and laughter followed. In the showers, Harvey scowled at the grimy tiled wall. A bull...
Bond of Brothers - Part 4
A dense mist blanketed most of Stillwater Cove, muffling any sounds and enveloping the little town in an almost otherworldly silence. Seven in the morning. It was still two weeks until the winter solstice, but a thick snow already carpeted the hills to...
Bond of Brothers - Part 5
The sun slowly sank into a haze of smog, the light turning the foetid sky a sickly orange and glinting dully from office towers and countless cars on the freeways. Deep in the bowels of the city, amidst the din of sirens and the roar of traffic, a lone...
The Luck of the Sneakers ft. Crisp!
The Luck of the Sneakers _It has long been known that the creatures of the deep forest are fickle, mischievous and never to be trusted. Tricksters, the weavers of tall tales, the players of pranks. Few have garnered a reputation for such antics...
Jack Frost - Part 2
_Jack Frost - Part 2_ Mom and I lived in Stillwater Cove for a few months before I started attending the local middle school. The first couple of weeks were a complete shambles - more so than any of the other times we'd moved in the past couple of...