Off Leash Chapter 8
Chapter Eight I had never popped over to the old man's house to borrow a cup of sugar for a reason. The eight-foot stone wall topped with iron spikes that separated his lot from mine communicated his stance towards visitors perfectly well....
Off Leash Chapter 7
Chapter Seven I have never been good at waiting. Everyone had gone upstairs through that searing white light and left me downstairs with my sooty paw. Rudy had disappeared, leaving only the trace of his nutty scent hanging in the air. I explored...
Off Leash Chapter 6
Chapter Six Rudy sputtered, "What? Oh, yeah, the TAU. Oric will probably show up in a day or so and whisk you off to their never-never land. Lucky." Rudy glared down at me from his perch near the ceiling. "TAU?" I paced below him, eyes crossing,...
Off Leash Chapter 2
**Chapter Two** My next clear memory is getting blasted in the ears by the razor-sharp beeps of my alarm clock. It took me three tries to successfully smack the clock hard enough to stop its awful screeching. When I did finally hit the damn...
Off Leash Chapter 1
**Chapter One** It had started as a good day. Objectively that was a lie, but after six months of unemployment self-delusion becomes a survival trait. I was two days from getting booted off unemployment, with my girlfriend AWOL for the last week. By...
Off Leash Chapter 3
**Chapter Three** I hadn't realized I had drifted off to sleep until the doorbell startled me out of it. A high-pitched chirp of surprise escaped my throat as my legs pinwheeled over the granite countertop for a moment. My paw pads slipped over...
Off Leash Chapter 5
**Chapter Five** Cornealius returned a few minutes later and deposited something in Sabrina's hand. She turned to me and smiled, her voice pitched as if offering a pet a treat. "You get to see a bit of real magic now." A yellow light flared...
Off Leash Chapter 4
Chapter Four The house that Sabrina lived in made perfect sense for someone who resided beyond the rational world. I had actually driven by it before and then circled around the block to confirm that my first glance had not been a hallucination. The...
Off Leash Chapter 10
Chapter Ten I hunkered down, digging my claws into the floor. A tiny voice in my head shrieked about my rental deposit. "I'm not joining the TAU." "Oh, kitten, we actually get that a lot from ex-humans." A new, sultry voice came from the...
Off Leash Chapter 9!
Chapter Nine If I wanted to avoid Cornealius and Sabrina, my house was probably the last place I should be. Yet it had been hours since I had escaped from their house, so surely they had checked here already? A quick visit wouldn't hurt....