Summer Interest - Ch 1
Alex lay in that comfortable, fuzzy place between sleep and wakefulness. Early morning sun warmed his feet where it filtered in between the blinds in long bright slivers. The weekend, nobody home, no one to complain if he slept past noon – except...
Leroic Academy: Zari 1
Zari could barely contain herself. She'd finally gotten rid of her parents and now surveyed her meager possessions. The small dorm room had few of the luxuries she had at home, but she'd trade that for a hovel if it meant escaping her parents. At...
Summer Interest - Ch 5
Alex, much to the disappointment he'd never acknowledge, woke then next morning of his own volition. Essie asked him to stop by the pokemon center with Zoroark to pick up a package for her, and he had expected Zoroark to take make every excuse to...
Summer Interest - Ch 2
Alex eventually managed to pull himself out of bed and wash up. He went through the motions mechanically, his thoughts preoccupied. Did he thank Zoroark, ignore what happened? He very definitely didn't plan on telling his...
Aether Tech 1
Amara plopped down on the stiff mattress and glanced around her austere room. To say her first day had been weird would be an understatement. Getting accepted to such a prestigious job as a new graduate had been surreal to begin with. Between the...
Scale and Fetters - Ch 1
Laisc curled himself around a plain leather-bound book in the middle of the floor of his quarters, dark red scales like a pool of blood spreading across the smooth stones. The shelves around the walls held real books, their spines painted in...
Scale and Fetters - Ch 2
Laisc lay despondent in his comfortable nest of blankets. A sickly cocktail of anxiety, embarrassment, and arousal mired his racing thoughts. The longer he lay there analyzing every possible misstep or awkward word that came out of his mouth, the...
Leroic Academy: Elias 1
Elias admired his work, a binder for each of his classes, printed syllabus along with all the required books for the semester. All his clothes were neatly folded away in the small but perfectly sufficient dresser, and the small organizer he set...
Summer Interest - Ch 4
Aside from a somewhat awkward dinner where his sister asked him why he was so quiet, to which he blushed harder than he had an explanation for, the rest of the day came to a quiet and uneventful conclusion. His parents conversation in the kitchen...
Summer Interest - Ch 3
Alex quickly washed up, still slightly flushed from what he had just done, and the number of eye rolls he received while awkwardly trying to offer Zoroark the towel he found, then even more awkwardly watching as she licked herself clean. He hadn't been...
Sanctuary - Ch 1
"You know we can't pay you overtime. Go home, Ani." Leah, the senior caretaker and Ani's boss, was the only other staff member who still lingered after the sanctuary officially closed. Her tone didn't contain a hint of disapproval though, more like a...
A Path Among Many - Ch 1
Rain battered against the tenuously waterproof tent, the reinforced top bearing the brunt of it, but wind gusted hard enough to drive water against the sides. Black city waited a few hours hike away, but traveling through this, if he could even manage...