TTYS -- Saturday Morning Coffee
Four friends gathered around the table at the cafe, enjoying the coffee, the company, and the sweetness of a Saturday mid-morning with the promise of something special attached to it. The great tawny lion chuckled as he looked across the table to the...
The Short Attention Span Porn Story Contest Winners
**GENERAL PORN** First Place: "They fucked." Second Place: "They fucked a lot." Third Place: "They fucked a whole bunch of times." **CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT** First Place: "They had a drink and fucked." Second Place: "They enjoyed martinis and...
Touching the Past, Part 1
Maw agape, the young numbat graduate student stared upward at the huge, ornate construction that stood before him. The height alone awed him, at least 70m if it were a centimeter, and all that from the base of the foundation; at the moment, he was...
Collar 14 -- Numbers and 1 Corinthians
Fletcher and I took our evening calmative in the kitchen, to sit at the table and talk about "small stuff," as he called it. Showing excellent discretion, Mrs. Whitson made sure that we had exactly two fine snickerdoodle cookies each to go with our...
Definitions
The lyric "it's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday" floated through Barton's mind as he tended to yet another customer. As was usual for a busy day, the three rental stations were active with their various clients and dressers, and conversation was...
Solstice
The longest day of the year also has the shortest night. Strange, you'd think, that it should affect me so much at this time, because the legend has it that we only come out at night, usually full moon nights. But so much of the legend is wrong. Most...
Lunch
Barton's brain froze at what he saw before him. Underneath the smell and undernourished body was a young gray male rabbit who had been forced to grow up, far too quickly, in all the wrong ways, in the worst possible conditions. The milk chocolate eyes...
Revelations
_The Getaway_ had only failed to open on time twice in its long and respectable history. Once was due to the horrifying weather of Hurricane Sandy cutting just a wee bit too close for comfort, and even then the store only opened late. The other...
Spotted (2019)
The locker door closed quietly, accompanied by a small, nearly silent sigh. The young white stoat looked carefully around himself, grateful that he didn't see any of the faces that usually meant trouble, or at least moderate discomfort. He had thought...
Waking
Eoin McCracken's superlative canine nose was usually the first and best sensor to changes in his immediate environment; many was the morning when scents from the kitchen of the Spenser Manse would wake him slowly to new treats for a new day. This...
History Lesson
"All right, class," the lady cheetah clapped her forepaws smartly, smiling. "The bell's already rung. In your seats, time to begin." With the various grumbling complaints that befitted the rebellious hormones of adolescence, the class of some...
The Stag and the Ocean
_A beginning is a delicate thing..._ _The old wolf sat alone at his table in the café, waiting to meet his friend. "I have a story to tell," his friend had told him, "of how I came to be born. I have told the story in music; it's time now for you to...