Strangers After All: Part V
I felt giddy as I sat next to Lani and watched television. Not restlessly giddy, but just the right amount of fervent excitement that builds in your system. Much like when riding a roller-coaster and you're scaling that enormous hill that - you know...
Strangers After All: Part VI
All I managed to do after Deacon scurried away with my shirt plastered to his face was this: 1.) Smile like a moron. 2.) Collapse onto Benji's bed. 3.) Laugh uncontrollably, in utter bliss, for five minutes straight. I couldn't keep the joy I was...
Strangers After All: Part IV
My first reaction upon hobbling into Benji's home was "Oh God, don't touch anything." The front door fed straight into the living room, the carpet plush and white, the walls black with elegantly detailed molding in ivory shades; a glass-topped coffee...
A Father's Love: Part I
"Colby Randall Crow," I said sternly, my eyes fixed on his mop of auburn hair as he stared at the ground, "Look at me, son." He didn't budge. His legs hardly reached the ground as he sat alone bunched up on a park bench, his arms crossed and his chin...
Lifted Higher: Chapter 2 - "It's A Date"
2 I hold Robin's phone number tight in my paws as Paul and I walk back to our apartment. I found the little paper scrap to be a bone of fortuitousness tossed to me: the literal and proverbial dog; to Paul, the paper is more of a symbol of his life...
Track & Field: Part 25 - Red Hands
Sasha Back when I was a kit I had a lot of troubles, and a real big one was getting to sleep. But I wasn't afraid of the dark, and I wasn't afraid of anything lurking under my bed ready to snatch me from beneath my covers. Monsters like that weren't...
Barred: Chapter 4
4 Nomac saw stars. Other bar-goers gasped and _ooh_-ed. The coyote tripped backward and the bar bit into his spine as he collided with it and crumpled to the floor. He tried opening his eyes, but those damn stars still blinded him, red and blue...
Barred: Chapter 3
3 Rai slid the _Old Fashioned_ to Nomac and took the other guy's money. He smirked as he walked off--smirked and shook his head. The coyote ignored him and turned slightly, softening his gaze and taking in his new _friend_. A black lab: not a bad...
Barred: Chapter 2
2 Nomac was never sure how to feel about the bar. He had things he appreciated about it--the dull lighting, cheap drinks, and horny guys for instance--but he had things he hated about it more--the horrible music, cliché celebrity photos on the walls,...
Barred: Chapter 1
1 It was dark and cold and rain was slogging down in fat plops against the sidewalk. Nomac hated the rain, and it wasn't just because he was a cat...well, _part_ cat. Cougar and coyote, he was, but more coyote than anything. A joke, really. He...