Preoccupied
_ What's the worst thing you've ever done?_ _ I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me... the most dreadful thing..._ --Peter Straub,_Ghost Story_ The deep crimson blur that took up so much of Parker's...
Chado (The Way of Tea)
Soft electronic music - what was called "ambient" by musicologists and those souls born in the ancient cauldron of the starstream - flowed effortlessly into the living room of the small, pleasantly cramped apartment. At his study desk, the lean...
Character Reference
The muscled young lion shifted the pin in the weight training machine to add another five kilos to his lift, then returned to his position in the chair, readying himself. He breathed slowly and fully three times, then pushed his arms smoothly,...
Stuck On You
"Oh, gods _damn_ it!" "Don't pull, you'll hurt yourself. "I can't fucking believe this..." "Relax, you'll spoil your afterglow." The melodious tenor voice chuckled. "Don't worry, I'll take care of it." The tall, well-formed Akita resumed his silent...
The Smell of Fresh-Mown Grass
His mind swam slowly upward through the mists of his sleep, not struggling either to wake up or go back to his dreams. In the moment, either would be pleasant enough. It was his nose that was helping him to return to the waking world, for there were...
Sauna
He sat on one of the benches outside of the sauna room, wrapped only in a towel, his sleek panther's body already the object of more than one salaciously raised eyebrow, crooked grin, or openly lewd wink. He had merely smiled and tried to look very...
Give and Take
I seem to be getting a bit of a reputation as reasonably good purveyor of written yiffery. [ 122x1](https://122x1.sofurry.com/ "122x1")...
Scenes from the Movie of My Life -- Hotel Lobby
As I have mentioned elsewhere, I will sometimes post things that are mere scenes, not quite whole stories. Things that are more autobiographical than not will appear under the heading of "Scenes from the Movie of My Life." What follows is a piece of my...
Recon
Three dark-clad canine figures, their features obscured by their masks, worked feverishly in the blackened alleyway. They were assigned Company authorized sobriquets of Tinker, Tailor, and Soldier. Tailor stood at the alley's mouth, his eyes fixed on...
Mini-Story -- You Hear Music in the Background...
This is only a scene, created from a writing warm-up excercise that started with the first sentence as a seed crystal. There's actually very little editing; I just had this idea of some young furs playing something like D&D, with one of them trying his...
A Binding Agreement
For those who have read my story "A Sweet Lesson," this is sort of a sequel. Some little time has passed, and Stripes (a Sonic-world based character owned by Stripes-the-Raccoon on FA, and who asked me to write this story) has become more trusting and...
Character Vignette -- Rainy Day Fund
What follows is one of my writing warm-up exercises, to write about a rainy day. To describe it, I put myself into a character and decided to find out just who he is. I think he's interesting enough to show up in another somewhere. I'm just not quite...