Ainge's Changes, Epilogue
_July 2013_ "I now pronounce you both officially mated. Thomas, Ryan, you may now kiss." As the full moon shined down on them both, Tommy took Ryan's muzzle between his paws and planted a long, passionate kiss on his mouth, while the entire pack...
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 19 & Epilogue
"Hey." I could hear a older man's voice pierce through the fog of my sleep as he softly nudged my left shoulder. "Hey, guy. Wake up." My eyes opened very slowly, still not fully awake, but conscious enough to be aware of my surroundings....
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 18
I don't know how long it took me to come down off my... shall we say, "brutality high". It may have been a few seconds, several minutes, even an hour or two. Not only was I still at such an elevated level of rage from what had led up to my...
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 16
"The year was 1633. I was the same age then as you are now." I could hear his voice grow whistful and plaintive with each word. "I was living in the newly-founded colony of Massachusetts, where I was a normal teenager growing into manhood....
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 15
We could already hear the music emanating from the school gym as Gregory and I exited the limo. The ride was short - after all, Gregory only lived half a mile away - but I don't remember a moment we were in that thing when our lips weren't pressed...
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 14
"Gregory and I are going to the dance tonight." There, I said it. As plainly as I could, without trying in vain to dance around the subject or make it sound like my relationship with Gregory was anything less than it really was. I guess I...
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 13
Run with him. It was a simple request, and not the first time I'd heard it. In the two months since I became a werewolf, Gregory asked me to run with him at least a half-dozen times, always as we walked home, so that others wouldn't hear; always...
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 12
I couldn't remember the last time I actually looked forward to going to school. Maybe in first or second grade, before everyone started to ostracize me, but even then I wasn't very fond of it. As the years wore on, I looked at the mandatory practice of...
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 11
Serenity. It's a sensation that people often talk about, but not many of them have ever actually felt. Imagine being weightless, bathed in sunlight from all angles, your body laying in whatever random position you find most comfortable. A...
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 10
I guess I can't blame myself for not being honest about my feelings for Gregory. He was right: I couldn't fathom someone ever loving me for who I was, because all my life I'd been told that I was inadequate and undesirable, so while I appreciated...
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 9
It's actually kinda funny, if you think about it - all that had been on my mind last weekend was the creature that had spied on me when I was about to take my own life. What it was, why and how it persuaded me to hold off on my self-destruction. Then...
Therapy
_This story was written entirely spontaneously, after spending about an hour alone, essentially role-playing the dialogue in my head before writing it. If it seems rather rough or unwieldy, it's because I spent very little time editing it - I didn't...