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...
Milgram
The chimera moved between the spaced out bamboo poles as seamlessly as a performer would've spun on a dance floor. Any misstep would've landed him in the water below him, and he \*was\* deathly afraid of water. Thinking about how Rakim had had to...
The Preserver
Boko's living quarters had looked like nothing else that Klein had ever seen. A concealed trapdoor in the forest floor had opened into an extremely large open underground room which served as the chameleon's home. There were stairs on the walls and...
Crosswinds
'Housewives should make $115,000 a year.' \*\*\* "'But there are no pixies!' the housewife protested. 'There's no such thing as pixies!'" Fran's mom had told her this story more times than she could remember when she'd been a child. "'It was...
Soma
Soma's organ garden had seemed like a good idea at the time. When the snake thought back on the many sacrifices that had been performed on the site he first planted his magicked seeds for it in, his greatest regret about them was that since there was...
Down The Stream
'You can't free a fish from water.' (217th Rule of Acquisition) "I told you that there'd be another Great Flood," Boko chided Klein, "but you didn't believe me, did you?" Descartes looked Boko up and down. He had no idea who this chameleon could...
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...
By A Thousand Cuts
"People get them without thinking." Fran and her roommate were watching her pets chasing each other around their living room. "They get them for their kids." "That's the thing!" she concurred. "They think of animals as lesser lifeforms than people for...
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...
Fishers of Men
'How cheerfully he seems to grin...' (How Doth the Little Crocodile, Lewis Carroll) Ammut had been left on the doorstep of a Brazilian orphanage before he'd been old enough to have known how to talk. He'd been far too young to have even remembered...
But Not Gone
It hadn't seemed like she'd been working there for such a long time. She hadn't, in some ways. Against the backdrop of her entire lifetime, her time at the company she worked at would have barely registered as a blip. But that also would've had to...
What Ships Are For
"Nobody's gonna show you the way, nobody's gonna hold your hand..." (Zeal & Ardor) "We can't even imagine what it was like for people on boats back in those days," Fran's roommate had said. "When they'd cross the ocean, it was like, on this...