Pacem Per Tyrranidem
Four in the morning was a terrible time to be awake. It was when Alyssa worked best. The noise from outside her windows, the endless waves of the city's shore, was quiet, reduced to a ripple when a wayward car meandered through the tight streets....
Don't Enable Magic Animals
"That's not fair," said the young man. "That's the rules," said the fox. The fox was lying. There were no rules. Thus, there were no rules against lying about there being rules to get out of granting terrible wishes. The little red beast stood atop...
Storm and Stone
Sheets disperse into stippled splashes against the granite facade. The door to the stairs slams open, slammed by the wind which whirls around the rooftop. Her feet cut splashes into the water that pools on the roof. The rain swirls and soaks her from...
A Tale of the Diluvian South
Way back, even before the waters came pourin down, Old Man Eli was feelin mighty angry. He gone and had Mami make them people, all the people down in the world. But they wasn't doin they job like he liked. They was making all kinds a noise and fuss and...
Fuck the System
"You got the connections all ready?" Oria asked. "Yup. Bouncing you around through six different proxies, and you're going to be spoofed twice. It'll take them hours before they could trace it back to us," Elix told her. The curvy brown-furred bat...
An Account of the Accession of Queen Mary IV to the Imperial Throne
As requested by Her Majesty Queen Mary IV, Lord over all States of the Dominion, the following is an Accounting of the divers Events which preceded the Accession of H.M. Queen Mary IV to the Throne. The personal Account from which this History is...
Sip of the Ol' Moonshine
Amy's friend's dad knew someone who was friends with a guy who had a place out in the backwoods that, if the hype was true, was an 'awesome place for parties and shit'. This somehow meant that Amy had to be the one to go out and get the keys from the...
Strawberry and Bubblegum
We don't get a lot of regulars coming in at two in the morning, so I could figure they were the traveling sort. We're out on the highway so we get a lot of those types. Road trips, vacationing in California, heading to Las Vegas, that kinda thing. I...
Joining the Girls
The last night had whirled into an exciting blur. Rebecca had been with him for most of it. She had run off in some other direction, said there was someone who wanted to something something and she'd be back by morning, and he hadn't seen her since....
Hell of a Party
Circ had grown out of parties. Well, he didn't want to say it like that and sound like an asshole, but that was pretty much the way he felt. Parties were great when you were a kid and got presents and everyone played games. And he bet that parties...
The Treasury of the Sphinx
To my esteemed colleagues: I have been asked to provide an accounting for the 'failure' of my most recent expedition. The location which I thought confidently to be the site of a critically important find has proffered little evidence of past...
Conversion
"We're gonna see if there's anything to do in this dump. You wanna come with us?" Jessie cracked her toes. She stretched them out after tugging off her sneakers. She could see a sliver of the ass of Emily's jeans through the open bathroom door. ...