The Altered Boy
Father Angelo never told Jim about the werewolves, at least, not until he reached puberty. It was then that the father finally worked up the courage to admit the secret he'd been hiding from the lad, since he'd come to the convent as a baby. "Jim,...
Temperance
It's been a long run up to this point. I can't bow out just yet. I've learned to curtail my hubris ever so slightly, and I've learned to hold my ideals tight, but to carefully assess. The fantasy utopias we dream up have a dark anti-side like a...
Dreamworlds and their Denizens (I)
There are several wonderful places, visible within my head. They are, almost consistently dark--unlit by any manner of sun. Rather, they most often are filled with stage-light, spotlights, or neon luminescence. One of these places is a Circus. A...
Thick as Thieves With Dreams and Dogs
1:48 AM. I sit in somber silence. My heart is beating. My whole body is vibrating like a tuning fork. I'm thirsty as hell. Georgette the Poodle is staring me in the face, grinning. _"Girl, we've got work to do."_ A salacious Sally Acorn is feeling...
Duality
_What must we endure, to be 'us'?_ "I don't know. I don't know." There is a divide, between who you are, and your ideal self: the you inside the shell. _Look in the mirror, but you won't see me._ "I know, I know! There is little I can do but...
Zoolatry - A Short Story About Us
"You know, we're all cheating human-ness, in the end." "Come again?" I reply, to the animal in my bedroom. "Careful, porcelain's sharp!" "What porcel--?" I cut myself off, as I bang my hand against the door frame out into the hall, and feel the...
My Momma, Tamamo
And so the veil was lifted, and she stood before me in all her might. What had been the conclusion of several weeks of dates, promises, and passionate lovemaking: Discovering my girlfriend, Mae, to be a fox. Rather, THE fox. It was too rich. I was too...
Mirror Fragments
"You're beautiful," I tell her in the nights--and we dance. "Come chase me," she says, in the mornings, as the light washes out my face. "But I don't know where that path will lead me, while the others watch my stride," "We cannot lead a life...
Rumination
Morning. July the twenty third, two-thousand, fifteen. It feels like a day from the Future. I say that having recently watched Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd's antics, on a big screen-- In my own living room. Has time really passed, that...
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A certain darkness has crossed my world. When twin genders, striving in silence of the sound, against each other, are not enough, And a third symbol is carved from the Roman pantheon, into our realm of the present I stand and lose my bearings,...
Bound In Beast Flesh -- Accursed Hunter
_"You're mine, you know."_ _"I know."_ _"You belong to me, forever."_ _"I know."_ It's been a difficult night. You've tried to reconcile everything you've done--everything you've become, so far. Maybe noticing your reluctance, or your vain grasps...
Bound In Beast Flesh -- Conversion
You confront Shanon sternly. "You've been filling his head with fantasies about this, haven't you?" Shifting into vulpeanthrope form, she raises an arm across her breasts, perhaps in defense, and giggles. "He's asked me all about being a ladyfox,...