Disagreeable Relations (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The holiday meal-table was a lengthy sprawl of all sorts of entrees and side dishes, surrounded in every place by an otter of the family, with only the exceptions of the lone Synth sitting a head taller than everyone else and the glucose wafer...
Don't Pay for Water (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The bear's howl of laughter seemed to echo off the walls of the diner, while the ferret grinned sheepishly up to him. When he'd settled back down from the heights that the weasel's anecdote had taken him, the diner seemed even emptier. With a wide...
Ritual of Re-entry (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The possum's breathing was somewhat labored as he leaned back against what was left of the small transport ship's communications console. He couldn't seem to stop tasting the burnt wiring smell, or stop hearing the gurgling hiss of the ship's reserve...
Meal Planning Concession (Otherwise Untitled)
~ While the winds and snow howled across the vast expanses outside of the shelter, the wolf glanced over the disassembled laserjack on the bench. The probe he held was still connected to the one cell, and the safety interlocks in the blue condition. ~...
Focal Distance (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The rabbit's attention was slammed back into focus as a bit of the grass some distance away shifted in position for a few moments. When, after the view through her rifle's scope failed to provide any further observations of dancing grass, she relaxed...
Hammering Out a Skill (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The cool night air was a welcome change of pace for the instructor, stepping out from a long draw of paperwork and records-keeping. The phoneix was always more comfortable with a hammer in his hand, than a pen, but matters of teaching always seemed...
Lost Bird (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The pigeon let out an exasperated sigh, glancing between his comms device and the fifth identical hallway of the orbital station. His options were essentially two in number, and he couldn't decide between the one involving getting to his quarters and...
Priorities Upon Waking (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The light battle tank's processing core came online, and was abruptly focused by three realizations. Firstly, that a new authorized user had been added to the roster some thirty years prior while she slept. Secondly, the forward side of the tank had...
The Month's Numbers (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The weather was a drab shimmer of gray skies and rain that didn't seem confident enough to do more than linger in the air as an oppressive humidity, the bear gazing out across the parking lot at the tops of the variously colored and shaped cars on...
Finality of Moving (Otherwise Untitled)
~ Into the darkness of the night that followed, the wolf stared in silence up to the pale ceiling as he stretched out to his full length atop the meager pile of heavy blankets he'd arranged on the floor of the apartment bedroom. Even without the aid of...
Cookie of Chances (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The meerkat gazed into the oven, and despaired. The baking pan, now somehow tarnished to a soft blue tint from the heat, bore a dozen objects that she'd hoped would become cookies during their time therein. ~ More than half of them were now crunched...
Chopping to Calm (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The doe's breathing came in gasps and heaves, the handle of the axe aching into her fingers. The sun hung low towards the amber glow of horizon as evening settled into the woods around her. She glared at the gnarled stump with a smouldering rage that...