Against All Odds: Part 17 - Wishful Dreams...
**_Part 17 - Wishful Dreams..._** _(Alexei)_ A cool afternoon breeze swept through Alexei's fur as he stepped off the bus and into suburbia, taking the edge off of the bright sunshine beaming down upon the northern side of the city. As was...
Foundations: Parts 1 and 2 (AaO Side Story)
_ **Foundations** _ _ **Part 1** _ _(Alen)_ Swipe after swipe, I grabbed the bedsheets to pull myself forwards. The mattress below kept on shifting. Straining. It made it tough to stay upright. Tougher still to carry on crawling. "I'll find you,"...
Fences (AaO Universe)
_ **Fences** _ Lili slammed closed the cabinet beside our stove. "You can't seriously be considering this?" "Actually..." I watched her storm across our tiny kitchen. "I am." "But why _you_?" She looked down, groaning loudly at her empty paws. "Have...
Fear and Desire - Spirit of the Season
Well, I failed last year, but this year I've managed to put together a Christmas short story. In trying to come up with an idea, I decided to use the opportunity to give a little update to the world of my previous "full-length" tale '[Fear and...
Connections
_ **Connections** _ A heavy barge sent me staggering forward down the entrance slope. The will of my shoe rubber alone stopped me tumbling completely. I missed the culprit; too busy preventing myself from ploughing through the crowd and onto the...
Escaping the Storm: Part 6
Part 6 In the days that followed his discovery of Viktor's opinion on Polcians living in Velika, Erik made a conscious, determined effort to cut all contact with him. Largely, he remained successful; their only subsequent encounters being the...
The Treehouse
**_The Treehouse_** Jason dashed excitedly through the kitchen towards the back door. A cheerful smile beamed from his little face. "Mum, I'm going out to play in mine and Dad's treehouse, yea?" he cried out. "Hold on a minute!" she called after...
Foundations: Part 3 (AaO Side Story)
_ **Part 3** _ _(Jonas)_ Man, I was _so_happy Ma and Alen got on as well as they did. Not that I had any real doubt. Ma's so chatty and open, friendly and welcoming, that I never saw how it could go any different. Poor Alen. I could read him like a...
Escaping the Storm: Part 4
_ **Part 4** _ Following in the trend of most other weeks, Sunday flashed on by in the blink of an eye. This time however, bucking his own trend of relaxing on his day off, Erik had spent a good portion of it trying to make his home as...
Foundations: Part 4 (AaO Side Story)
_ **Part 4** _ _(Jonas)_ I managed to make it all the way back to my parents' without murdering my little brother. Probably a positive when all'd been said and done, even with his non-stop bitching. "Hey, Ma," he cried, swerving around the front...
Escaping the Storm: Part 8
_ **Part 8** _ "Erik! Thank the gods you're home!" He'd wondered how his mother would react upon his arrival home, almost two hours after escaping the station. Turned out he'd barely be able to set foot inside the front door before being ambushed by...
Foundations: Part 5 (AaO Side Story)
_ **Part 5** _ _(Alen)_ I woke to a stray beam of sunlight the next morning, creeping in past the curtains above to jab me perfectly between the eyes. Normally, I'd have frustrated at waking up so early on a Saturday. At least, I figured it to be...