The wave inside chapter 2
Chapter 2 "Roll with the changes" \*\* _(After the Pulse, society has collapsed and technology is gone. Magic vanished from the world a century ago, but Pascal (a college student) thinks he can bring it back. He's teamed up with Luke, a grad student...
Nothing Else Matters chapter 16
Card 16: The Tower Gunnar emerged from the bathroom still wet from his shower. A towel was casually placed around his hips, and drops of water pitter-pattered down to the floor. A beefy, wide-bodied Pit Bull with light brown fur (except for a...
Crossing the Rubicon 4
_"For I have known them all already, known them all -_ _have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons._ _I have measured out my life with coffee spoons._ _I know the voices dying with a dying fall,_ _beneath the music from a farther room._ _So how...
Crossing the Rubicon 8
“I’m happy. Hope you’re happy, too. I’ve loved. All I needed: love. Sordid details following.” - David Bowie. 1989. The quest begins. Marjolen stood on the sandy bank of the river. She dipped the toes of one foot into the warm water. Her...
Crossing the Rubicon 10
The church was at least one hundred years old. Ornate, made of brick and stone, the tall, old church rose up towards the sky. On top, a bell tower perched like something out of the Middle Ages. The bell had not been rung in decades. Behind the...
Crossing the Rubicon 9
"This city desert makes you feel so cold - it's got so many people, but it's got no soul - and it's taken you so long to find out you were wrong, when you thought it held everything." - Gerry Rafferty. Jack and Drake crouched low on the rooftop....
Crossing the Rubicon ch. 1
_{"Is there life on Mars?" - David Bowie.}_ \*\* [Previously, in Crossing the Rubicon (prologue), Duncan, a 32 year-old Pit Bull, recruited Jack, a 25 year-old Great Dane . . . for an Adventure. Neither of them would call it that. Duncan has found...
A better world part 1
Part One. For some reason, I was pretty casual about the food situation. I _assumed_ I had enough food for three months or so - but - let's be honest, I'm not really good at figuring out that kind of stuff. I was pretty sure I had enough to get me...
Nothing Else Matters chapter 12
Chapter 12: The Hanged Man Rex handed me a bottle of water. He’d chilled it in the freezer for a few minutes, and it was ice cold. In his left hand, he held another bottle, similarly chilled, meant for himself. Grateful, I held the bottle up, and...
Albion chapter 1
_We know that the Empire lasted almost exactly 1,000 years. (We know this because they kept very accurate records.) Imagine that. Imagine something lasting that long, if you can. Such a long lifespan partly explains how the Empire was able to shape the...
A better world part 2
Part 2 The village had lost a few hundred of her anthros when the plague had hit. An awful number of fatalities, true, but the death toll had been higher in most other places. We'd been lucky, if you want to call it that. "Lucky" seems like an odd...
A better world 4
**A better world 4: what came before the storm** _Society has fallen, after a plague killed many anthros. Jack, an anthro Lion, believed he was the only one living in his village. (Not everyone in the village died - however, the survivors all left,...