The Chronicles of the Broken Claw: Encountering Yourself
By Chakat Brokenclaw All characters contained within are © Chakat Brokenclaw. Chakats are © Goldfur/Bernard. The Chronicles of the Broken Claw: Encountering Yourself Chapter one: Brokenclaw "They call me Chaplain Brokenclaw." I...
The Gnoll
Gnolls do not smell as bad as people imagine. I was sitting in the bar just off of the main town road, when I first saw him. He was big, he was broad, and he had the look of seeing things...
Night time, Show Time
* * * A friend of mine drew the picture linked, which is NSFW. Comenting on it, he later asked me to write a story about her, and threw up a few ideas. In return, I did this in a one shot - and here is the story I did for him. More chapters may follow...
Alien Dreams
Alien Dreams My flanks against the stone, my hands curled against my chest, I breathlessly to the pulse of the hundred chambers throughout the odd temple of learning which I was homed within. I breathed slow and quiet -...
Miles Low
Miles Down The glow of the morning sun, and with an open window in a high rise, was a wonderful way to wake up. I basked as my ancestors must have back in the trees, savoring both the heat and the open breeze. I gave a small grunt, stretched out with...
Trespassers Price
The swamps were fetid and wet, and left a musky scent throughout the old growing wood. A swamp, flooded and wet and teeming with life, few dared to cross into the marsh, for the vines were thick, the roots were grasping, and predators hunted the...
Sweetpea and the Radstorms
Rad-storms. Frankly, if one went about discounting the Super-Mutants, Ghouls, and Sting-Wings, they were really the worst part about Boston. I hated them, both for how they made my skin itch, and for how it seemed to make the ghouls even...
Heat Games; Sloppy Seconds
Admittedly, life had not changed much for the girl, Falina. Standing under the heat of a scouring shower, built to blast the day off scales and leave one invigorated, the brown scaled kobold enjoyed her few quiet moments she had to herself. Water...
Winters Union
There are certain duties that we of the wild must partake, to maintain our bonds with the goodly creatures which we work with. I do not mean this simply, beyond the cares one would show a good ally. No, there are duties that we rangers must...
Deeper-than-Oceans
From space, Undarius was a big, beautiful blue world. It was big, thirty percent bigger than my home world, but given to a sixth less dry surface, making the beaches long and many, and the many archipelagos and islands dance with lush...
People of the River
**--** **Day 1; 1200 of 3000 hours** **--** A crimson sky touched by golden clouds, and the endless song of featherless flying reptiles was as a symphony in the twilight hours of the...
Alien Hive
Alien Hive His body provided a subtle warmth - even trembling as it did in his state of near-catatonia. With his breathing shallow and thin - but he willing to respond to my prodding now and then - I was content to leave Hands...