A New Job - Part 3
The template engineer was called Teresa and she was a very friendly and welcoming squirrel. Buck teeth, heavy tank like tail and very strange forearms, they were long clear cylinders full of strange coils of metal and plastic. They made it hard to...
A New Job - Part 2
That's how Stardust found himself two hours later in a small, neat waiting room on the fourth floor of the recruitment centre dressed in a blue hospital gown. It was one of those embarrassing ones that they made you wear before surgery. Tied around the...
A New Job - Part 1
Waving goodbye to his friends Stardust ducked into his transport capsule and settled down into the threadbare cushions and laboriously typed in the instructions to take him home. The capsule lifted a couple of feet off the ground, motivators humming...
Guardian of the Black Pyramid
They had been toiling for years now, building the Great Pharaoh's pyramid. The priests and bureaucrats and engineers organised them all in work groups. Flattening land, preparing the building blocks, and locking them all together to form the mighty...
An Oil Painting
Strolling away from the encampment he'd made with his apprentice deep in the forest Kaed stretched his arms above his head, arching his back as his tail swayed back and forth. He'd slept most of the day, this current step in his existence was quite...
Agency 004: Natural Contract
Stepping into the lift car Sterling swiped her card and depressed the button for the sixth floor and turned to the mirrors lining the back of the gently moving car as she left the underground car park behind her. Adjusting her suit jacket she nodded in...
Rat of Glory
Nutmeg hurried through the tunnels beneath the streets of London, scampering along on all fours for the most part. He paused occasionally to stand up and test the air with his whiskers or adjust the bandolier of tools across his chest. It wasn't easy...
The Dominion Diaries: Or the Rise of a Supervillain
**Mistday 5th Erintor:** So I've decided to keep a diary, I'm not going to write in it every day, that is boring. But whenever something significant happens in my life that deserves to be committed to word I'll put pen to paper and record it here....
The Plentyn Cael Farm Christmas Fayre: Chapter 7:
CJ gasped softly as Tarw's thick fingers travelled down his bare chest, the brown bat taking a half step backwards in surprise as he tilted his head back to look up into the eyes of the bull. The big guy smiled, his eyes and straight white horns...
The Plentyn Cael Farm Christmas Fayre: Chapter 6:
The fayre was bright and energetic, the music loud, the crowd boisterous and cheerful and the air was thick with the scents of roasting food, powdered sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Erakir was loving it, it was so nice to have escaped the monotonous...
The Plentyn Cael Farm Christmas Fayre: Chapter 5:
Taking a large bite from a toffee apple he'd snagged Quix mingled through the crowds leaving the wurlitzer tent. Crunching on the sickly sweet treat the otter smiled and wove through the crowd, nodding, munching on his toffee apple, using the stick as...
The Plentyn Cael Farm Christmas Fayre: Chapter 4:
**Laughing softly Nall pushed the door closed, leaning both hands on the heavy wooden frame and pinning his boyfriend against the wood. The door muffled the jolly tunes of Christmas carols playing out in the petting zoo but Nall only had eyes for the...