Early Risers
_ **Early Risers** _ My sore eyes took a moment or two to fully clock the alarm on the bedside table. Reading the time as a few minutes before 7am, I almost wished they hadn't. "Ugh." I yawned hard, my whole body shaking underneath these oh so cosy...
Torchbearer
_ **Torchbearer** _ Blake sank to his knees, placing a paw to his battle-felled brother's chest. The pain-stricken grunt it drew threatened to pierce his own. Blood oozed between his fingers. Drenched his palm. He recited a silent prayer for any and...
Rock Bottom
_ **Rock Bottom** _ I stretched my legs, then my arms and back, grumbling as I stirred in this makeshift bed of mine. A faint bar of light seeped between the gap in the giant door ahead, saving me from total darkness at the bottom of this wardrobe I...
Lost & Found
_ **Lost & Found** _ The air stifled so very much. Even on a morning that was not so hot, how difficult it was to breathe came as the first thing to my notice upon disembarking the train. To walk through the streets, the crowded, overloaded streets,...
Crash Landing
_ **Crash Landing** _ The bedroom door creaked louder than it had any right to. It left me frozen at the threshold, halfway between the light of the hallway and the darkness beyond, ears brushing the top of the doorframe while deep in thought over how...
Tilted
_ **Tilted** _ A warmer than usual summer meant another hot, sticky summer's evening. An evening made even hotter and stickier by how hard Marek and me were going at it on the couch... playing our new fighting game: Rift Warriors 2. My paws were so...