Shadow
The orcs have returned. I can hear them just outside, squabbling and arguing and goading each other into facing me. To rouse me to battle as if I were thralls like them. I did not need them to tell me there were invaders in the mountain. The thing...
Owl's Nest
I was loitering by the keg holding a plastic cup of nameless beer when I spotted her. I didn't know her name then, but I had seen her before-- she was in my sociology class. Her and about 200 other people, I guess, but she was someone you noticed....
Roleplaying Games
Beth had decided that she hated everything. She hated this school, this math class, the room it was held in, the desk she sat at, the weather outside, her brother Jason, Red and every single one of his friends, and, most especially at this particular...
Expectations
Megan turned the ticket over and over in her hands while sitting in her reading nook in the corner of her bedroom. The ticket was a rectangle of laminated grey cardstock with the date and time of the spring dance printed in black on one side. "Admit...
Summer Job
Dru was staring at his veggs and sweetcake. Staring and not eating. The resort commissary was lively this morning- lots of workers eating together, talking and joking and getting ready for the day, same as me and Dru. Except here was Dru, not...
A Little Help From My Friends
It was only a ten minute ride to the Kazans' house from Red's, and the squirrel spent it obsessively considering what would happen when they got there. He mentally ran back through Jason and Beth's conversation he had eavesdropped on the night...
Skipping Out
"Gin," declared the raccoon, placing a card face down on the discard stack and facing his hand. He looked up at Captain Reinhardt, eyes dark and glistening in the characteristic black mask of fur that his genetic model line featured. The captain looked...
Substitutes
Donna had been subbing for Mrs. Fuller for three weeks now, but she figured out who the troublemakers were the first day. Teenagers were always testing, looking for weakness, but were completely unsubtle. Mrs. Fuller had left an annotated seating...
Empty Pages
The rabbit sat about halfway up the otherwise deserted beach, near one of the big houses, in a canvas and wood folding deck chair. She could tell he was a rabbit from the ears which poked through holes in his wide-brimmed straw hat. The hat kept...
Dear Michaela...
_I wrote this story a couple of years ago, for a print publication called "Michaela's Midnight Letters". You can still buy copies online!_ [http://www.ibexa.com/DigitalWuff/Michaela/](http://www.ibexa.com/DigitalWuff/Michaela/) _Anyway, the story had...
Off Balance
By popular demand, a sequel to "Dear Michaela". I tried not to think about it again. I swear I did. But it's like trying to get a song out of your head once it's in there. You find yourself humming it when you're not paying attention to what you...
Party politics
(This is a continuation of my story "Nate Loses His Way". Reading that first is suggested but not entirely necessary.) As with everything I post here, this is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or...