Got It for Myself
I Got It for Myself Doc Hauke Speaking to this youngster was a gamble. Maybe he didn't hear you in the loud, thumping musical background. "Hey," he says back to you. The large, young bull's forehead has a white patch in the middle, otherwise...
Killer of Pipefixers
It was nearing dark in the woods near the plains; the sun was about to disappear behind the mountains in the west. Some of the work to be done that day was left undone, but there was a reason: a visitor of great stature and reputation had arrived. ...
Basement Billiards
The sun was about to set over the long row of fraternities and sororities, disappearing behind the peak of the triangular roof of Sigma Mu. At the opposite end of the street, looking west toward the setting sun through a window of the upper floors of...
Postinemesis Garden
The long, rectangular room was quiet except for the stirrings of Henning, who was perched on a chair specially made for him. Always restless, the cockatrice was wearing his ceremonial hood, which made him even more prone to fidgeting and complaining....
Court of the Obsidian King
Dhar woke with a splitting headache, feeling disoriented. He was still underground, which did not surprise him, but he was in a large chamber now instead of the passage he remembered. Had there been a collapse? He sat up and rubbed his head. No,...
Brock Bawk
"Dammit," Rock said as he looked through the fridge one more time. At this point it was a matter of wishful thinking. As much as he'd talked up making the special birthday cake for his friend Bruce, it'd be a tragedy to admit he hadn't...
Strangers in Booth #23
Snicks nervously rubbed the top of his scaly head, lacing his fingers between the nubs on the back of his scalp. It was a bit premature to call them horns at this stage, but they were still prominent enough to be noticed. He hadn't had time to file the...
Lead your Flight Away
The world, sometimes called the Great Ground by the natives, was a large continent surrounded on all sides by an ocean that no Praxian had ever claimed to have crossed. They were no strangers to water, since Great Ground had many lakes of various...
Fang and Fiddle part 1
By Doc Icenogle May 5 2004 Fang : Fiddle I don't know how to thank you for this. You are saving my life really. I just don't know how to think you. Fiddle : Will you just forget it. We been best friends ever since we where in first...
Tussle
I love the old gyms, the ones left over from the previous era. They're very rare, scattered about in what's left of the old concrete islands. You have to go to them to find decent steam rooms and saunas, and they still have water showers, not those...
Catching His Eye
The kobolds scurried along the passageways, climbing and squeezing their way through twists and turns that would have been unnavigable even to dwarves. There were seven of the small reptilian folk in all, minimally armed; for the most part, they were...
He's bigger than you might expect.
Certain conversations with owls put me on edge. The first time I ever "got" someone by accident, it was an owl. He surprised me by turning his head all the way around at a moment when I wasn't expecting it. I tended to avoid owls for a few years after...