Interlude: On "guard duty" (Southpaw chapter 3)
It was a few hours past midnight, and the night sky was cloudy - so cloudy, there was no sign at all of the moon and the stars. There was a faint chill in the air, and Southpaw the Dalmatian had wrapped himself up tight in his blanket. His sword lay in...
Raining again (Southpaw chapter 2)
{_This is part 2 of the Southpaw saga. Part 1 was simply titled "Southpaw," and it's okay if you didn't read it. All you need to know is that Jack is a wolf, and Connor (Southpaw) is a Dalmatian. In part 1, they took a shower together and became...
Demon or dog?
Well, my daddy said it was a demon in the shape of a dog. And then my grandpa said, no, it's a dog that's been possessed by a demon. And so I asked, what difference does it make? And my grandpa cuffed me up side the head, for what he called my...
A little stress relief
"Do you feel like doing something risky?" I asked Chase. "Always," he replied. We'd been playing basketball with some kids we didn't know very well, and we got schooled. Hard. Those guys turned out to be really, really, good - we played two on two,...
Southpaw
[_This might be part one of a series._] \*\* At first, back then, all I knew about him was the obvious stuff. He was a Dalmatian. He was nineteen. He was still pretty green - he'd just joined up with us about six months ago. Everyone knew he was...
Our first day together
So . . . I was in the locker room, at my college's gym - and, um, I was sitting on the toilet. I only mention that part because I looked up and saw a Great Dane walk by - oh, and I should mention that the stalls there don't have doors. _Kinda_ _cute_,...
A gift from my village
The path running up the hill had been fairly steep, so I was winded by the time I got to the top. Waiting for me, at the top of that steep hill, was a small bench. This was the point of no return, I knew. I paused for a moment, getting my breath back,...
At the park
I'd gone to the park because I was bored, depressed, anxious . . . and maybe a little bit horny. All I really wanted to do was go home, put on some sad, depressing music, and curl up under the sheets. All I really wanted to do, in other words, was fall...
A better world part 1
Part One. For some reason, I was pretty casual about the food situation. I _assumed_ I had enough food for three months or so - but - let's be honest, I'm not really good at figuring out that kind of stuff. I was pretty sure I had enough to get me...
A better world 6
**A better world 6: Take me in and dry the rain** \*\* In the dream, I was in the shower room at the rec center. I think it looked much the same as it did in real life - except for one very noticeable thing. In the dream, the walls of the room...
A better world 5
**A better world 5: those days are all gone** _Society has fallen, after a plague killed many anthros. Jack, an anthro Lion, believed he was the only one living in his village. (Not everyone in the village died - however, the survivors all left, most...
The animal within
The outside of the temple was plain. It'd been constructed from stone hundreds of years ago, and the outside walls were plain. No decoration, no carvings, no ivy or other plants growing up the sides. The interior, however . . . The interior walls...