Sometimes You Gotta Run Away
_This story was written as a gift for a friend, and is used by permission. At the time of this story, Penny & other characters are all 19 or older._ It was two am, and the rain was pelting down. It was, in fact, a dark and stormy night, though the...
Slamfuck
_Lights strobing, shifting, blinding. A surging sea of people under the flickering, flashing colours. Knots of colour, glowing, swirling in chaos, and under it all, the pounding, driving bass line rhythm, like the heartbeat of some feral...
The Kin
Genesis Most people know whatthe Kin are: a genetically-engineered group of species combining the human genome with various animal genoma. Few, however, know howthe Kin came to be, nor why, to this day, the UN patrols their secluded tropic island with...
Apartment 3A (Chapter 2)
I watched Molly walking down the aisle, delivering something - paperwork of some kind - to one of the guys in the engineering bullpen. Molly gave me a warm smile as she passed, and instead of just gawking as I once would have, I smiled back, just as...
The Lesson (Chapter 1)
The most anomalous thing about it was that, for junk mail, it was quite tastefully done. No lurid colours, no splashy "SPECIAL INTRO RATES !!!!" screaming at him from the page. Instead, spare, almost severe lettering in an elegant font read "West...
Country Stuffin'
Naira, Ardanis decided, was really taking this 'farm' thing too far. At the moment, the busty, curvaceous Holstein-girl was holding the leash to his collar, smiling, relaxed and taking it easy on the soft green grass. She was dressed - if you could...
Apartment 3A (Chapter 1)
Thump, thump, thump... _Dammit, they're at it again,_ I cursed and looked at my clock. 3 AM. Great; I had to be up in a couple of hours. Muffled exclamations and moans accompanied the rhythmic thumping. I still hadn't met my next-door neighbours but...
It's Not Business, It's Just Personal
There was a soft tap at the door, and an exquisitely beautiful mousegirl looked in. White-blonde hair cascaded over her shoulders in a startling contrast to the warm grey-brown of her fur and the charcoal of her dress and matching sandals. "Your 10...
The Lesson (Prelude)
"Miss Rhiannon!" Hir head snapped up as the wooden ruler cracked on hir desk. Wide-eyed, shi jolted back in hir seat, hir ears swivelling back of their own accord from hir fright. Other students snickered. "I realize you have... handicaps," Miss...
The Company Christmas Party
For all that Miss Vipra was a demonic being determined to undermine, conquer or otherwise enslave the world, she wasn't insensitive to the customs of business or the needs of her employees. So it was that every year, she provided a staff Christmas...
The Lesson (Chapter 2)
Tobi stretched lazily. The sun was warm through the window in the cozy room Rhiannon had provided for the 'stable cat', really almost a mini-flat. The door led out to the mares' wing of the stable, but inside it was neat and bright. _What shall I...
Hammered!
June Winters stirred her coffee idly, staring out the window at the snow. Never had her surname seemed more apropos. Snow lay on the ground outside, drifted three and four feet high here and there, though mostly it was about two feet. More snow was...