The movie: part four (by Zanian)
Wastrel awoke in another room; once again, he was trapped in the designs of the rabbit that supervised everything. He could have cursed his luck, yell to the heaven how much he wanted to get out of there, but to tell the truth, he was starting to get...
Drink Me
At first, there was just a slight shift in the light coming down through the branches in the grove... "Looks like rain", he thought to himself with a pleasant smile illuminating his serpentine face. He'd been \*so\* looking forward to some rain, the...
The movie: the first scene (by Zanian)
Wastrel didn't know what he was doing in such a place, but he knew that it wasn't the same place that the add in the newspaper promised him. Maybe he shouldn't have trusted mere words in the daily newspaper, but again, why shouldn't he? He had nothing...
Diaz & Mandrake
Mandrake's modus operandi usually involved inviting his patients to his own office rather than going all the way to meet them where they dwelled, but as shut-ins were difficult to draw out of where they lived for obvious reasons, the otter had decided...
Grim Forge
People who die and who go to heaven realize that some of the people who they cared about in life were sent to hell and that they're no longer allowed to interact with each other. The split shifts, from being simply between demons on one side and angels...
Shinai & Rajiv
Shinai the weasel lives in a dirt cheap, cramped, sparsely furnished dwelling in the burning hot Arizona desert. Weasels were long stereotyped as cowardly, so he first became a combatant to disprove that misconception and resist that label - he would...
Volk
In Volk's world, undeath ends up playing the social role of indefinite life extension reserved for the upper class. The wolf doesn't believe that there's such a thing as the afterlife, and unlike other undead-fighting heroes, he has no interest in...
Mandrake
Mandrake is from the Jungian, "left hand side" of psychology, not from the mainstream Freudian school at all, but from the movement which, even though it borrows from psychology itself for its own purposes, has been labeled the "anti-psychiatry"...
The Worm and the Fish
As the worm dangled on the end of his line, the fisherman became frustrated that none of the fish were biting, and began to curse the worm for being lousy bait. "Stupid worm", he said, "wriggling around like that and warning all the fish away. I swear...
Walden
Walden's mission in life is to deconstruct the many ways in which magic has been appropriated to serve the interests of the power structure at the expense of the general population - to use magic himself in ways that re-appropriate it while questioning...
Tandem
"I have to speculate that God himself did make us into corresponding shapes like puzzle pieces from the clay..." (Such Great Heights, The Postal Service) "I sometimes think that I'm too many people, too many people, too many people..." (Too Many...
Surface (Chapter 13)
"Boards don't fight back." - Bruce Lee The next morning, the first thing Klein had heard after having woken up had been the sound of Boko typing at his computer terminal. When he'd noticed that Klein had finally been up, Boko, ever the type to rise...