Sibirskaia: Sticks & Stones Part 2
Sticks & Stones Your Word Against His (December 2nd) There they were. Again. They were taunting him. He knew they were. What other explanation was there for the way they shoved their filth in his face? For a while, he'd believed they simply...
Sibirskaia: Your Local Twelve O'Clock News Part 4
(November 26th) Noon. Today -- this dark and rainy Tuesday -- was a 'teacher work day:' a holiday for the students of Sibirskaia High, but not for its teachers. Tomorrow, the three day break for Thanksgiving would begin in earnest, for everyone. But...
Sibirskaia: Your Local Twelve O'Clock News Part 3
Your Local Twelve O'clock News Sports (November 26th) Just past noon. A television blared from high upon a wall, though barely audible amidst the clamor of the food court. And from its screen flashed the calling card of a local news...
Sibirskaia: Your Local Twelve O'Clock News Part 2
Your Local Twelve O'Clock News Weather (November 26th) Just past noon. A television buzzed upon a cluttered kitchen counter. And from its screen shown the dark and disheveled mugshot of a wolf...while, over it, spoke a calm, metered, and...
Sibirskaia: Your Local Twelve O'Clock News Part 1
Your Local Twelve O'Clock News Traffic (November 26th) Just past noon. A television illuminated an otherwise unlit living room. And from its screen, a ferret spoke...well dressed, even more well quaffed, a microphone in his paw, and a school's...
Sibirskaia: No More Lies Part 3
No More Lies No Easy Way to Say It (November 10th) His tail still stung as he slipped himself into his briefs. But after such a lively tying, what else could he expect? His fur, after his shower, had yet to dry, and the porous cotton briefs...
Sibirskaia: No More Lies Part 2
No More Lies No One Else (November 10th) Sunday afternoon. A breeze rolled through the back yard. His fur shifted. It was cool. In fact, it was bordering on the cold...but Jeffery didn't mind. He didn't even bother to pull his clothes tighter...
Sibirskaia: No More Lies Part 1
No More Lies No Turning Back (October 6th) The last forty-eight hours had been...eventful to say the least. The months ahead would prove taxing. Chaotic. Infuriating. And at times, even laughable and absurd. But it had all begun here. In the...
Sibirskaia: Blood & Water Part 5
Blood & Water Silver & Gold (November 7th) There they were. Orange and black. For two months, that was all he'd needed -- just those two colors -- to set his chest aflutter. They brightened his eyes, they put a smile on his muzzle, they turned...
Sibirskaia: Blood & Water Part 4
Blood & Water Smoke & Fire (November 4th) A red pen glided along white paper...the top page of a slowly diminishing stack. It was Monday, it was lunch time, and all James Callaway would be having today, was a single granola bar. But it couldn't...
Sibirskaia: Blood & Water Part 3
(November 2nd) Should he call? One day ago, Elliot attended a funeral. Her name was Dot. He barely knew her, but she meant the world to the tiger who meant the world to him. And today, on this sluggish Saturday afternoon, he lay on his bed in the...
Sibirskaia: An Unusual Family Part 3
An Unusual Family Unbearably Close (October 13th) It was nine in the morning when the door bell rang. Later, much later, William and Aaron would describe that ringing bell with their finest hyperbolic flair: the words of consummate writers. It...