Showtime
"Now you're going to see a real fight," Rakim told Klein on their way to their seats as they saw the next contestants on their way to take their place in the ring. But what did a real fight look like? The otter climbed up on the rope, using it like a...
Battle Bot
The bat had pretty much laughed in his face. "Are you sure you're supposed to be here?" With the crowd already cheering for them from around the ring as they sized each other up after the bell had just rang, it seemed a little late to the skunk for...
Puzzle Game
Bridges sat on Klein's cock with a sigh of relief, like sitting in his favorite chair at the end of the day. The skunk gasped as the otter's rear end came down on him in one smooth slide, expecting more resistance than he got. Ogun's spit-covered...
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...
TransPlant
* * * "So she never got to finish it," Fran's best friend had told her. "Halfway through," the jackal had shaken her head. "They wrote the rest based on her notes," her best friend had gone on. "I hate that." "You do?" Fran had tilted her...
Die A Thousand Deaths
'Everyone has secret words that can save them. Everyone has secret words that can kill them.' (Unknown) "So they weren't slaves?" "Not technically," Fran's best friend had answered. "I'll be gosh-darned," the jackal had shaken her head....
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...
Surface
**Chapter 1: Bat Outta Hell** Rakim and his mother moved to the West when he was but a child. He only remembered bits and pieces from those days, the way one tends to half-remember things from early childhood, before one is even of age for...
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...
Into The Abyss
'Let me hammer him today!' (Pink Floyd, The Trial) Mano's path led her back up out of the water and into a corridor that led her to a rowboat on a canal. Approaching the rowboat to sit down in it and pick up its oars, a chill went down her spine...
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...
Deep Blue
He finally noticed her from above the pier as he flew overhead. Scylla was tied up to a pole, plunged so deep into the earth under the shallows that went back and forth between high and low tide between the shore and ocean that there was no way that...