Karoshi
Tezcat the jaguar was out in the jungle on his own one day, minding their own business, when he was suddenly surrounded by zombies who threw a net over him and shot him with a tranquilizer dart, then fell into unconsciousness. When he woke up in a...
Diaz
TRIGGER WARNING for supernatural self-harm. Diaz is the self-appointed security guard of a museum he's built in which to hold his own artwork. He would never think it fit to expose his art to any other eyes than his own, and would feel too guilty...
Boko
"One enters a nation according to its customs just as one enters a river according to its flow." - Viet-Namese saying Boris Chrome is a self-styled hero, reviled villain, refined aesthete, world traveller, obsessive packrat, brilliant linguist,...
Argus
While most onlookers would at first glance think that the job description of Argus the rat is limited to being a librarian, he thinks of himself more as the caretaker to his own kind of aviary. Even though he's a warlock first and foremost, he also...
For We Are Many
Rakim's boyfriends were Soma and Ogun, Soma's boyfriends were Mandrake and Rakim, and Soma's master was Mnemos - a rat with a pet snake, no less. Soma and Ogun were friends without benefits, just as Mandrake and Rakim were, and Mnemos was on good...
Lucifer Economics
"Do angels fall in love, mom?" "Of course not." What silly questions children asked sometimes. "Aw, that's sad." She pouted. Her mother smiled. "Don't worry about them, sweetie. Angels are okay that way. They're used to it." "But why?" She furrowed...
Spaced Out
When Fran had been a kid, she'd often stare out the window aimlessly while her mom would drive. "Come in, Huston." Every new building and landscape would become a new playground in which to let her mind wander. "Houston, we lost you." She probably...
Spare Parts
"Waste not, want not." [FLICK!] "[-'told me to be careful so the people who take the recycling out of the bags don't cut their hands on them,' the actress on the talk show had said, 'and it just hit me right then - how many of us even think of the...
Set In Stone
* * * * * * "What does she do, exactly?" Fran's best friend's story had been about a serial killer. "She never even touches them," the jackal's best friend had started. "She just talks to them. She learns everything about their lives, their...
Autopilot
'If work is so good for you, why don't the rich do more of it?' "Who said that?" "Some famous wolf writer I think," Fran's best friend had replied. "The same one who wrote AWOO." "I think that's AROO in fact," the jackal's roommate had chimed...
Still Life
Although it would've probably been considered a controversial approach to therapy at best by a lot of his peers, after having given it some thought, Mandrake had decided that it could've been a great idea to bring Diaz to the Bolgia. Then again, most...
Dead Trees
It looked like the scruffy, note-taking rat who he'd noticed earlier turned out to have been there because she'd signed up for the tournament after all, Klein was surprised to see confirmed. Putting pen and paper aside, she'd gotten up from her seat to...