Pop Goes the Weasel
_All around the mulberry bush..._ Science is a footrace and so far the pharmaceutical industry is winning. Genetics could be a close second though. Not that I really care, I'm just a glorified salesmonkey. It's not a bad life. I get to travel the...
Couldn't Keep his Mouth Shut
Tobias Severna sat over the edge of the examination table, waiting in the lonesome, Spartan room for Dr. Chris Brownwell. As he awaited the physician, the pronghorn fiddled with his broken horn, partly out of impatience, but mostly out of comfort. It...
Love at Twin Oaks Pt. 6
The two bucks stared at each other as long silent minutes dragged past. Finally Dirk spoke in a soft, growling voice, "Give me **one** good reason not to remove you from this property." Florien, who had been studying with great intent a spider...
Inadvertent Experimentation
Professors meant well, but some days the constant droning of their voices could put even the most avid student to sleep. Dry dusty texts and long winded dissertations were not what Tobias considered to be the ideal learning environment. He liked to do...
Love at Twin Oaks - The Beginning
The petite doe nibbled on her lower lip as she studied her reflection in the looking glass in front of her and, after much deliberation, announced, "One more should do it, nanny." Behind her the aging badger groaned and retorted, "One more of them...
Love at Twin Oaks - Answers
The two bucks stared at each other as long silent minutes dragged past. Finally Dirk spoke in a soft, growling voice, "Give me **one** good reason not to remove you from this property." Florien, who had been studying with great intent a spider that...
Under the Beech - Week 1
They met under the beech tree that divided their lands, as they had many times before. Under the evening's soft light the two furs fell into each other's arms and pressed their soft lips together. In a life filled with turmoil and prejudice this place...
Of Impropriety
"_Ae-iya- haw- Pull, and sink, stretch and rise, Ae-iya haw-"_ _ "Grow big and tough, bark-strips,little bark strips, for my children's clothes"_ _ "Ae-i-ya haw, Pull and sink, stretch and rise, Ae-iya haw-"_ _ "Sink once for husband, sink twice for...
A Breaking of Brothers
The Truth sounded across Lehsunia, the Church's grand bell tolling the mid-day meal. In a classroom of the Mehnzilian Church's Academic Annex, the sonorous melody seemed to sound from the Wyranese Tower of the Moon, as the young pronghorn, Rolf...
A Taste of Her Own Medicine
Christine finally yielded, and lay still in an over-sized armchair, having tried in vain to rest for the last hour or so. The macabre events of the last few days (especially poor Joshew's passing) had finally caught up with her mind, arresting her...
Tobias: A Vignette From Long Ago
_"...Thus became she First Lady, Mother Wenya. The Wisdom of the Spirits she held in her bodies Wenya and Wild, thus also was First Lady the First Shaman. So traversed First Lady, with the blessings of Earth Mother, across the lands of our primal...
Love at Twin Oaks Pt. 7
"I think you'll find it does." If the previous silence had been awkward, this one could have won awards. The two bucks, each so different from one another, stared each other down like gunslingers from the Wild West. Dirk, the head groom at Twin Oaks...