What Would You Do...
_Author's Note: This was a difficult story for me to write. First person is not my preferred viewpoint, and I really wanted to dig down and explore the emotions of the character. I hope you like it. Any feedback would be much...
The New Candidate
The New Candidate "It's time." Keldeo raised his head, blinking at the abrupt change in light caused by the striking figure standing in illuminated profile at the cave's entrance. Taller than him by nearly half his own height, the canid form's...
Don't Let The Music Die
**Don't Let the Music Die** How odd the working of the mind could be. Ariette reclined in a plush, fake leather chair, a thick blanket draped across her haunches. A bubbling flute of champagne perched on the tray next to her, along with the most...
The Lonely King
**The Lonely King** They call me terrible. They call me wicked. They call me tyrannical, mighty, and the greatest of calamities. They are...
Aquatic Arbitration
**Aquatic Arbitration** _By Arcane Reno_ The moment she walked in I knew she was trouble. Long, luxurious tail culminating in a fin that could knock a guy off his paws; quick, mincing steps that said she knew where she was headed and heaven help...
A Special Arrangement
Jacob's breath came in short huffs and gasps, filling his nose with the mingled perfumes of flowers that _almost_ covered a heavy underlying musk. His sweaty paws gripped the sales counter. Oh gosh, this was such a bad idea. A customer could walk in at...
A Question of Loyalty (Preview)
"I tell you, Ivan, we're gonna be rich!" Captain Robert's words came with a hearty slap on the back that knocked the breath from my smaller frame, and had me grabbing for the ship's guardrail to keep from toppling to the waves fifteen feet below....
More Than Expected
More Than Expected Before her, eerily towering like giants, the decrepit restless trees swayed with crackling of twiggy branches. The last of with autumn's clasp lay around her ankles, crunching underfoot, heralding winter's leafless...
Root Directory
**Root Directory** "I didn't mean it!" Root squealed, "I'm sorry!" A small maintenance drone, detecting the noise, tumbled aside from Root's barrelling path through the narrow VPN connection corridor. "Sorry!" Root called again over his shoulder. A...
Coaxial (part 2)
**Coaxial** **By Arcane Reno** Darkness and cold enveloped me, somewhere between reality and nightmare. Was I dead? I was blind, deaf, dumb. My whole body trembled, and no force of will could make it stop. I couldn't die yet. I had too much left...
Coaxial (part 1)
**Coaxial** **By Arcane Reno** **The club was packed tonight.** Elbows and shoulders jostled me from every side as I moved through the crowd, aiming for the bar. Pulsing dance music joined the chatter of hundreds of voices to create a virtual haze...
Sex on the Beach
**Sex on the Beach** The sound of the _Starship Enterprise_ transporter jolted me from my half doze. Christ! If I got caught napping on the job, I'd be in for it, no matter if it _was_ ninety-five degrees. A fly buzzed its lazy pattern in the...