Lien's Punishment
"What do you want?" Temeraire snapped at Lien as he entered her pavilion. "Now, now, must you be so upset over sharing some tea?" Lien said coolly. "Yes, when I am sharing it with you." Temeraire retorted angrily as he sat on his haunches...
The Mountain King
The spring wind ruffled the silvery gray fur on my chest and caused the trees on the mountaintop around me to sway. The wind tossed the woolen tartan shawl draped over my shoulders this way and that, but did little against my rough leather trousers. ...
Not Without Honor
The wooden staff cut through the air so close to my head that I felt it disturb my russet fur as I twisted out of the way and struck back with my own. My training master, a red fox like myself, saw the counterattack coming and knocked my staff aside...
Dawn of a New Empire
Kurush had to resist tearing into the still warm elk-flesh as its blood dripped from his jaws, the scent teasing at his nostrils and sending pangs of hunger through his charcoal-gray scale-clad body. No, he thought distantly as he wound his way through...
Switching Sides
“David, we should go, we're not supposed to be here!" I implored my husband, who crouched at the window, peeking through a gap in the dusty blinds. I shifted uncertainly on my feet, well away from the windows, and tapped on a dusty desk...
Frontier's Embrace
## Frontier's Embrace Zvezda's feet pounded on the rubberized deck of the racetrack as he made his morning run. The track itself hugged the perimeter wall of Huygens Station's centrifugal gravity module. “Morning" was something of a theoretical idea...
Mojave Redemption - Chapter 7
--TWO MONTHS LATER-- "I look ridiculous." Jacob said in dismay as he stared at his reflection in the mirror. Daniel had returned to their small Freeside apartment from the Strip with a surprise for Jacob that he now wore. "No you don't. You look...
Mojave Redemption - Chapter 6
Two weeks had passed since Jacob had parted ways with Sarah and he was now drinking whiskey at the bar of a seedy casino called the Atomic Wrangler in north Vegas, or Freeside as the locals called it. The journey to Freeside had been mostly uneventful,...
Mojave Redemption - Chapter 1
Jacob stood in silence, his eyes wide, too stunned to speak. The young wolf wanted to whimper, to cry at the loss of his parents and his bleak fate, but the bleak landscape before him killed the sound in his throat. He stood on a rocky outcrop with the...
Mojave Redemption - Chapter 5
It was late afternoon when Jacob and Joshua finally descended the stairs and got ready to go back to the grocery store for the water. Jacob shrugged on his duster, he thought about leaving his bag, after all, it would just be a short trip and should be...
Mojave Redemption - Chapter 3
Jacob wondered what the hell had made that noise, or if he was just losing it, when out of the silence that had followed the "thump"s came an equally faint whistling sound, this time from above. Jacob sat there thinking he must finally have lost his...
Mojave Redemption - Chapter 2
It was noon the next day and the sun beat down upon Jacob's back mercilessly as he toiled at the trench. He didn't recognize the human on watch today, a young dark fellow who left his rifle leaning against the dugout wall instead of holding it like the...