Shadow of the Father, Chapter One
Chapter 1: The Steward of Dewanne By the time the second month of summer had come and gone, the novelty of the locusts had faded, but Yilon still relished the bitter taste and crunch of them. They flew stupidly into the darkness of his...
The Silver Circle, excerpt
This was not an isolated cabin in the woods. It was a cabin in name only, a tidy little one-bedroom house in a small cluster of similar cabins, on the western shore of a narrow lake near the south end. The nearest cabins, barely visible from her front...
Green Fairy Excerpt #1
Sol was only reading a news story about a college student who'd killed himself, but the student had been gay, so when the young wolf's fur prickled with the feeling of someone staring at him, he hid the story behind the picture of a car on a local auto...
Pop The Cork
Jason flipped the light switch and looked around the cellar. "Pretty nice," he said, walking past the rack of wine bottles to the half-finished bar. "It'll look great when it's done." "You're sure nobody's going to come down here?" Trey glanced up...
Miracle on 34th Sheath
"I just don't understand how you can say foxes give better head." The young pronghorn tilted his head to one side. "I mean, herbivores got a running start on any carnivore." "I didn't say foxes give better head," Martique said, leaning his chair...
A Moment In Darkness
Nicky felt the stillness of the bedroom before he opened his eyes. He turned his head toward the soft blue glow and cracked an eye open to see the time. Three-twenty-one. The fennec yawned and rolled onto his back, trailing a paw down his chest fur....
The Real World
Cansi wasn't even sure what a muskrat was, much less why a silent one would be unusual enough that someone would name an inn after it. But the Silent Muskrat was the first inn he'd come across on his way to Divalia, and as it transpired that they...
It's A Beautiful World
_The sun was a particularly nice shade of lavender today_, wrote K.M. Hirosaki in his journal, and opened the door to stroll out into the soft purple light. It made for a nice change, all things considered. The fur on the foxes who lived next door...
Secrets
_ **Mid November** _ I've got a secret. I've had it for a couple months now. My teammates knew I had a secret back in early October. So did coach. They still don't know what it is, and they've stopped asking. The local papers started asking me around...
In Between
"In Between" By Kyell Gold I spot her just after midnight. I'm hanging out with the guys, drinking, laughing, joking, eyeing the cuties at the other end of the bar down at the Fang. Everyone knows the team goes there to drink every Friday...
Halftime Entertainment
It's halftime of a pretty important game in the division. The Crystal City Sabretooths are top of the league, and us Yerba Whalers, just up the coast, are struggling to hold on to the middle. It's my third year as a pro football player, and I'm finally...
Out of Position bonus story: False Dawn
It feels weird getting on the plane to Chevali and not talking to Dev about it. The airport, the terminal, all that is so familiar, and yet there's that one piece that's lacking. It's like going home and forgetting my favorite tail brush at college....