Commission: Flora and Fauna
Flora and Fauna _ Moonless, cloudless; air thick with damp. Silent but for an irritation of crickets itching in the miniature crevices of crusty earth. Movement. Reach out, brace, pull, rest, repeat, repeat, repeat. No thought, no desire, only the...
Night's Good Night
Setting the stylus aside, the young tiger grunted as he flexed his forepaw carefully. He'd been at it for a little too long today, and even though the art commissions were doing well for him these days, he knew that he should take a break from them...
The Stories
_By the gods, you are beautiful..._ The milk-chocolate fur of the lithe young rabbit dripped copiously as he pulled himself out of the pool, his ears directed unobtrusively behind him. He rose to stand on the cement nearby, perhaps 160cm on his own,...
Readership, Part 1
The cards that lay face up on the table were in a pattern of his own devising. He had studied and listened to his deck for several decades, and they had eventually been able to help him understand what both they and he needed in order to read properly....
Regrets
The back door to the spa banged open sharply, and the old badger looked toward both ends of the alley before running to the dumpster to check all around it. Finding nothing, he looked up to the other end of the alley, where he saw the meerkat from the...
Delivery
Lyal still leaned against the wall of the shower, his breathing quick, feeling better both for the steam of the shower and the equally steamy treatment his sister had just finished providing. She knew exactly what to do to thrill him, to tease him, to...
Voir Dire
A small, decorative china plate, balanced perfectly on the tips of equally elegant claws, bore two perfectly elegant pastries to their destination. Outside the guest room door, Benedict knocked gently. "Zachary? I come bearing the very last two of the...
The Dare
The Dare I looked at the poor bear cub, trembling in his chair before my desk, and I knew that everything we've been teaching our children has been nothing but wrong. I wasn't sure that I was ready to risk my job, my reputation, possibly even my...
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...
A Question of Intimacy
A Question of Intimacy The knock at the door was so tentative that Graaz, rousing from his light doze on the couch, wasn't entirely sure he'd heard it. He shifted slightly, his ears pivoting to fine-tune the input, the tip of his tail flicking a...
Chip Chip, My Little Horse
I'm never sure if she's quiet because she's pensive, or because my driving makes her nervous. I hope it's the former, because I'm not likely to get that much better at driving anytime soon. I was glad to be able to borrow my mate's car, just as he was...
Collar 17 -- Revelations
Wyatt drove his late-model Cadillac with a full complement of five. In the front seat beside him, Mrs. Whitson sat the slightest bit stiffly, her clothes decked out in Sunday finery despite it being only Saturday. All of us were well-dressed, including...