Turning tables
Turning Tables I stepped out of the shower, water droplets sluicing off my sleek, black fur. I smell faintly of peppermint soap, and my body has the slightly weak, shaky feeling one always gets after you've had a hot shower. Rubbing my body with a...
Family of Fire
Family of Fire The day is wet and humid, the skies filled with angry dark clouds that pour rain all over us. The ground is muddy with the torrent, and my clothes are sodden, my fur soaked and plastered all over my body. And here I stand, drowning in...
Leaders and Lovers - Chapter 3
Leaders and lovers Chapter 3 "Commander on deck!" Raymond's sharp voice cut through the air like a knife. Michael dropped the datapad he was reading and snapped to attention, a well practiced movement from his months in training. Clicking his boots...
Leaders and Lovers - Chapter 1
Leader and lover Chapter 1 "Exiting cryo in T-minus ten seconds." The flat expressionless voice of the AI reverberated throughout the dimly lit cryogenic chamber, rebounding off the titanium plates and struts that made up the room, deep in the...
Leaders and Lovers - Chapter 2
Leaders and lovers Chapter 2 The showers were a large hexagonal room split into half by a partition for the various genders. The walls were featureless titanium, with showerheads and controls sticking out of the walls every few feet. The ground was...
Commission: A Half-priced Book
A Half-priced book _I've always had a weak spot for antiques, but daaammmnnn..._ _This is one beautiful sonofabitch._ The book was bound in old leather, the surface crumbling slightly, the brown flaking off in little chunks that revealed the hairy...
The Path of Ashes - Chapter 1
The Path of Ashes. The ash fell constantly, blanketing the ground until it was almost ankle deep. A grey perversion of snow, something that was hardly ever seen these days. The sky was a dull grey, what most people from the Before would call overcast,...
Rightful Booty
Rightful Booty There was a slight sting on his upper arm. _Goddamned flies._ The tiger snapped his other arm up, palm first, smashing the hapless mosquito into smithereens and leaving a dark red patch on his fur. Looking in disgust at the mess, he...
The Salesman
The Salesman "Dammit, it's that asshole again." Daren couldn't hold back a groan as he watched that blue convertible trundle up the street through the window of his bedroom, chugging out smoke and waking up everyone in the neighbourhood. He had been...
Priestly business
Priestly Business. His robes itched. Endur scratched frustratedly at the coarse, rough wool that covered his body, chafing his skin and occasionally catching on to a strand of fur and pulling it out with a painful yank. The monastery was trying to...
Forests and Savannahs
_This is my kingdom._ The lion surveyed his land from his perch, a vast emptiness of ever-ranging plains and rolling hills, interspaced with shrub and the occasional tree. The range was a brilliant hue of yellow and gold, the sky a deep orange that...
Leaders and Lovers - Chapter 4
Leaders and Lovers Chapter 4 The beachhead seemed light-years away. Michael ran with all his strength. His every thought, his very existence, his very _meaning,_ was simply to get there alive. Sand rose in puffs all around him as bullets impacted...