Squirrel Tree Inn
Deep in the boundary of the Oakthorn forest, nestled beside the road that leads from Brambleward to Sunnydown, you will find the Squirrel Tree Inn. Run by a family of grey squirrels, the inn is built into the trunk of a massive oak. It is both shelter...
STI- A Dangerous Hope
Millie bent over the sleeping possum and frowned. He'd wandered in and out of consciousness for half the night, and the wound in his side had turned angry and red an hour in. Whatever made that cut hadn't been clean, and she weighed that fact alongside...
STI- Teresa's Discovery
The skunk screamed, muzzle stretched into a wide gap and pink tongue curling around the single, terrified syllable. Hector moaned, let his lashes flutter and peeked just enough to be sure she had no weapon, that he wasn't about to be beaten or...
STI-The Soup is Ruined
Millie's daughter-in-law was an angel. When Jeremy brought home the diminutive red squirrel, she'd questioned how so delicate an animal could thrive alongside her robust son. Patricia surprised her. Raised in a nest with six rowdy siblings, the girl...
STI- Hector's Plight
Hector pulled the blanket around his body and leaned into the wind. His fur rippled, silver across his shoulders and back but fading to a pale ivory along his belly. He limped along the dark roadway, stumbling when a loose stone rolled beneath his...
STI- The Toad's Prophecy
The toad had slept in her yard for seven seasons. He moved very little, spoke even less, and aside from a brief week when the snows covered his warty hide and she feared he'd freeze solid, had been no trouble at all. Millie's friends had suggested she...
Live Cargo
"I don't take on live cargo." Cici reached under the collar of her jumpsuit and scratched the dense fur beneath. "What else you got?" The spaceport lighting made a kiln of her radiation resistant suit. She flattened triangle Corgi ears against her...
Beast
She left a message for her husband on the morning of the massacre. Askeila kept her voice as flat as possible, kept the tremors away by digging her claws into the fur of her thighs while she told him exactly where she'd be. Where he could find her....
Episode Ten: MAAB
P'rao scuffed the dust with his talons and watched the entrance to the meeting cave for any sign of Meech. His buddy had vanished into the low opening moments before, and though the mouth of the cave enjoyed a steady stream of birds both coming and...
Lessons On Chains
Stella carried her yarn bag up six flights of stairs, across the tenth floor apartments, and up two fire escapes every morning before work. She sat on the building's air conditioning unit, poured herself a cup of black coffee from her late husband's...
Episode Seven: MAAB
She tugged on a bit of grass, and the strands parted from the mat, pulling free. Tr'lia held the smaller bit in her beak and hopped two bounces to the right. The fiber had cost her the rest of her festival money, and it wasn't very good quality at...
Episode Si: MAAB
**Much Ado About Bluebottles: (continued)** P'rao waited for them under the bleachers. Tr'lia landed on the highest perch, three beats before Lili's impact rattled the dried timbers. She saw him twist his neck up, caught the flash of green in the...