Your Mother Wears Army Boots (By Avoozl)
" **Your Mother Wears Army Boots"** **By Terry Echoes** I've got a love-hate relationship with cameras. They love to watch me, and I hate that. I suppose lots of people could say the same, and I'm probably not much different from the next person who...
Bored Meeting
**"Bored Meeting"** **By Terry Echoes** At least twenty years had passed since Calvin Phosphene had been a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed recent college grad excited for his life to be given an opportunity with Wellerbeans Ltd. Inc. Co. He did not...
Put Me in the Trash
There were a few nice new products on sale at Klyder's Department Store that quarter, but the lime jello marshmallow cottage cheese surprise was not one of them. Clyde Igglesby wanted to retch at the label of the dense, bowl-shaped, cheap-plastic...
Awakening (By AmethystMythDen)
_Prompt: The final confrontation between the plucky hero(s) and the big bad. AND. The thoughts/actions of a character that knows the world ends in 15 minutes._ "_I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo._ _"So do I," said Gandalf,...
Tintinnabulation
There it was again: The sound cutting through the trees, piercing past the wind and calling to mind the silence of every creature in the forest. Craig Secker could hear the tinny tones of a mobile phone from roughly a decade past every time he hit...
I had this dream
A ring of the doorbell, and like clockwork, five seconds is all it takes. "Oh, Louise! You're back in town for the summer already? University treating ya well?" "Just fine, Mr. Brooks. Everything's going wonderfully so far." Nosy as it may...
The Interrogation: A Dr. Cardboard Revue
" **The Interrogation: A Dr. Cardboard Revue"** **by Terry Echoes** Pierre found himself staring up at a picture of a man with a manic grin. The grin stretched across the man's golden-brown muzzle, and his eyes were lit up with the kind of jovial...
A New Dynamic
I'll admit, most people would call my relationship pretty idyllic. A spunky little brown-furred bunny girl, paired with a sweet, loving white wolf, the two of us able to afford a nice home and still spend time with friends whenever... to the outside...
The Temporal Casualty
I stand before the playpen staring down at the wolf pup. He stares back his golden eyes curious. he's not afraid; why would he be? He doesn't know why I'm here, he doesn't recognize the weapon I have pointed at him. He's innocent, but he won't always...
Never Taste Freedom
Hector Elizondo hadn't been looking for it, but he'd found a solution to quitting smoking. First day I met him, he had a cigarette stuck between his lips. His goofy, smug smile held his cig at an upward angle so I thought he might stick the damn thing...
Dana's Elusive Trick
A young zorua moved through the lamplit street with her equally young trainer. The faux zubat wings tied to her back felt awkward, flimsy. She constantly shifted the strap around her belly to keep them from drooping. As for her trainer, she was dressed...