Zonktober 2022 - 3. Memory play
"And then I told him 'Dude, are you sure you aren't hypnotized' and he was all huffy and proud! I mean, you just had to look at the guy. Kept walking into the gym like a zombie, lifting weights all glassy-eyed and stuff... And it wasn't only sweat that...
Zonktober 2022 - 2. Pocketwatch
"I'm telling you, that's bullshit! There's no way that can work on me!" Xavier scoffed. As a professional stage hypnotist, the large gator was used to hearing those sentences quite frequently, with slight variations from time to time. In his...
Zonktober 2022 - 1. Countdown
Jerrett was in a terrible mood. It wasn't only that Jasmine had thwarted his clumsy attempt to escape The Garden - needless to say, trampling on his pride in the process - but the Guardians had agreed to remain silent about it, as if it'd never...
Zonktober 2022 - 9. Visor
Dabble was familiar with visors, of course. He had fallen victim to one or two in the past and the experience had been pretty satisfying to say the least. That meant he knew what to expect when the thin screen carefully placed in front of his...
Zonktober 2022 - 8. Transformation
** ** Pyrex had made a habit of worrying too much in the past. In this particular occasion, though, it could be argued that the kobold wasn't _simply_ worried - no, he was anxious. Nyeogmi had a penchant for putting him in all kinds of...
Zonktober 2022 - 7. Resistance
** ** At first, Seth thought he'd imagined the practically inaudible sizzling sound in the room. There were several reasons why abandoned tombs weren't a popular destination for field trips - one of them being that a single mistake could end...
Darryl's Day
Darryl the rottweiler woke up just like any other day in the week. He opened his eyes, sat up in slow motion and scratched the back of his head groggily. He rubbed his eyes, turned to his nightstand and picked up his phone to check the time...
Zonktober 2022 - 18. Confusion
It happened again in the evening. Sylvan had been having a weird feeling lately. Like he wasn't completely aware of reality for a second and then his mind just came back stumbling to it. The sylveon had found himself performing a completely...
Zonktober 2022 - 17. Fractionation
"Okay. Are you going to tell me what that really important thing you absolutely needed to tell me in private was, now?" Bal chuckled softly. The horned dragon's long tail drew a wide arc at his back as he turned to look at his friend Rad, who...
Zonktober 2022 - 16. Frozen
Kodi scratched the back of his head and brought the tip of the paint brush to his chin, lost in thought. There was something wrong with the piece he was painting at the moment, but he couldn't figure out what exactly. Maybe it was the...
Zonktober 2022 - 15. Accidental
You had always wondered whether the owner of a pocketwatch shop would know the kind of customers they'd inevitably end up attracting. There were shops that sold all kind of timepieces - which were probably safe, you thought - and then there...
Serenaded
"Hey, man? Anywhere you wanna go now?" The words seemed to wake you up from a weird stupor. For some reason, the broad, boundless sky over your bodies felt like a blanket. You could have sworn you had been cloudspotting for hours, even though...