FaNS gaiden: Iris gets a hand
Iris woke up - she was splayed on her belly, the sheet soaked with sweat. It wasn't even her night shift, yet she'd woken a several times. Partly out of habit, partly out of the heat - not even midsummer yet and what a heat wave! She stretched out her...
Finding a New Self, Chapter 13: Obligation
We reached the estate, and Renna said, "This is really different. Someone's moved in, it seems. Since yesterday morning, even. Huh." I didn't really have a basis for comparison, having only seen it once in the dark, but it didn't look terribly...
Finding a New Self, Chapter 10: Turn of the Century
As Ezi flew off, I commented, "We may be in a lot of trouble." Aresh nodded, but said, "At least they can't just read our minds outright. Given what they were taunting you with, they probably would have mentioned what I did last night, if they knew...
Finding a New Self, Chapter 15: Axolotl
I rented the strange body after dinner the evening of the 4th, as having it on rest-day would let me avoid having to bring it in to work. Instead of bringing a lock and key, I brought the grocery cart to coil myself up on. I also recalled how scantily...
Finding a New Self, Chapter 12: A Cryptic Morning
When I woke, I was really seriously disoriented. I was holding a raccoon that it took me only a moment to remember was Renna. The sunlight that stabbed through the back grate and had woken me kept my eyes from adjusting to the dark that most of the...
Finding a New Self, chapter 19: Redeployment
I returned to the telegraphy office in the near-dark. It was locked, but I found Geeo in the back. He put his paws on his hips. "What is this mess? Your lines denatured!" "I wasn't strong enough to turn the press at the time, and Mezo was busy. Then...
Finding a New Self, chapter 20: A Series of Fortunate Events
Geeo didn't 'regain his senses' - I remained assigned to start a new office in Periten, with minimal support: only Aresh and whatever junk wasn't needed from the Getta or Tiko offices, and a loan offer of two hundred measures at eight percent per year....
Finding a New Self, Chapter 8: Arrival
Now, while the next few days were fine days and many important things happened, they would not be particularly interesting to relate in detail. So I shall skip to the evening of day 199, one day before the turn of the century. Renna had just woken up,...
Finding a New Self, chapter 21: Favor
Renna and I stepped out of the exchange into pouring rain, heedless of getting wet, and never minding that the rain striking the awnings made a drumbeat so loud we would have had to scream to be heard, and the rain striking us interfered with trying to...
Finding a New Self, Chapter 4: On the Road
The body Renna was to take to Allegos was a 1:2 anthro white goat, with a voluntary hoof/hand transformation, 52 years old, and male. Renna balked at the age and gender for maybe half a minute before deciding it would be exciting. The transfer...
Finding A New Self, Chapter 14: The Wire Room
Stepping outside into the cooling evening air, Renna said, "By the way, I trust you were just saying it that way to be petulant." "What?" "When you said we'd go to the Getta refitters so you could try on bodies for me." "Why do you say...
My Little Mashup 28 - Wrapup
Lily dabbed tears from her eyes as Candice finished reading. "I'm so glad our baby isn't going to be an ex-megatyrant." James leaned in and asked, "Is this a prospective baby?" Chuck replied, "James, I'm not a serial villain. Do you think I would...