10 Pattern
One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. The electronic music fired up at the beginning of the show. Pyrotechnics showered the stage as the performer began the act. A steady pattern underlined the beginning of the set, with a slowly evolving...
07 Enchanted
Legend has given us no shortage of enchanted objects and places. Swords. Lakes. Entire kingdoms. Some stories were pure fiction. Others, perhaps, held a grain of truth that had grown wildly with the passage of time. Little thought is given to the...
Musical Pause (Otherwise Untitled)
~ Through the dimly lit haze of the bar, the badger up on stage could see that a pair of folk off in the corner were standing rather angrily at something. She stood up from her stool, fingers not missing a beat or strum of the wooden guitar currently...
Canine Planning (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The coyote settled down into the bench, holding his bag firmly to his side. He glanced around the park furtively, lingering for the anxious moments of waiting to be recognized. When neither alarm or violence arrived, the canine slipped a notebook and...
Orders Up, Options Sideways (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The possum shrugged to the gryphon, his hands, fingers, and mouth a complicated nest of support and manipulation around the burrito that he was struggling to eat faster than it could fall apart. ~ "But, then why even have it on the menu?", the...
Subway Inquiry (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The kobold calmly looked up from the book she was reading to meet the gaze of the excited cockatoo, their crest feathers bobbing along with the rattle and bustle of the subway. The lights flickered somewhat. ~ The tired sigh of repeating an answer...
Sales in the Park (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The wolf's gaze was a sweep across the park, until he spotted his quarry. He slid up onto his feet to stride across the gravel path, ducking under a particularly low hanging branch. ~ Coming upon the skunk he'd seen from across the grass, the wolf...
Small Reply (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The mouse's ears were perked attentively, giving the words all due focus up until they decided upon their reply. ~ "No, I don't believe I will do doing that.", dropping to one knee as they raised the muzzle of their rifle to bear on matters at hand....
Barfight Invite (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The badger stepped away from the bar and out into the more open area of the establishment, a grin forming across her face as she reached up to break the shaft off of the crossbow bolt stuck in her shoulder. "Thank you for your prompt reply.", her...
Trowel, and Despair (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The fox gazed out at the shrunken plants and dying leaves of his garden. Some portions were as though a desert, the others a swamp. All had too much or to little water; nothing had successfully grown. ~ His attention turned to the trowel in his...
Cold Rumble (Otherwise Untitled)
The badger's confidence in his own motorcycle husbandry skills melted a bit more with each shuddering cough of the engine and prickle of the blizzard seeping into his gloves.
Appeasing Shadow (Otherwise Untitled)
By how eagerly the eagle regarded the silhouette of his fiance in the door frame, it was clear that who to love one of the few lessons he'd declined to learn from his parents.