Awakening
Stephen groaned, shoving his way through the busy street. A pack of chattering Parisians came to a sudden stop, blocking nearly the whole sidewalk as they pulled out their cell phones. They laughed at each other's jokes enthusiastically, heedless...
Reunion
The door closed behind her as she entered, the sounds of the city fading away as the deadbolt locked itself. She stood in the hallway for a moment, her ears twitching this way and that. As much as the sounds of modern machines unnerved her growing...
Changing of the Guard - An Unexpected Gift
The night was quiet in Hartford. Here in the suburbs, families were settling down to their Christmas dinners as an eerie fog rolled up from the river. To those few souls wandering the streets that late, it carried not the usual swampy stench that...
The Fall of Luci-Fur
**_Thus begins the fall of Luci-Fur, whereby is chronicled the return of spirits to our world, in a time when humans still walked the earth._** The spirits had been strangely quiet, lately. The wind ripped through the trees as something growled deep...
Wolfmaker - Chapter Two
The rain was coming harder now. Ambrose let out a whine as he shivered. He shook his head, and gazed down the road. His new eyes picked out a faint glow that his old senses might not have detected. He sniffed, and caught a whiff of smoke. His stomach...
Wolfmaker - Chapter One
The sun broke through the clouds, burning the night time mists away. An old dirt path wound its way through the mountains, dancing along hilltops. A small company began to trudge along the path. Some bore sigils of their house, or their religious...
Zoomorphica - Chapter One
_ _The wind howled as I trudged along. The Towers came into view, and I breathed a sigh of relief. I could see the gate up ahead. I glanced to my right as sudden motion caught my eye, as I was passing a small park that had been nestled between the...
The Dying Stars
Above, lay peace. Below, a new world wheeled and spun. Small fissures began to form in the glass windshield as the ship entered the atmosphere. Alarms screamed in the ears of the young blue wolf as her ship crashed into the planet. Sunlight glinted...
The Dawn of the Veiled God
The Dawn of the Veiled God As the sun began to shine across the eastern side of the Histwald, a figure could be seen. At times travelling on four legs, other times on two, the creature climbed up the ancient hillock which had in æons back served as a...
Trouble Brewing
The cafe hummed with the sort of quiet hum that would lull even the most stress-addled mind. The smell of coffee clung fast to the air, as twenty versions of the same basic brew were ordered, brewed, passed, and sipped in quiet nooks by monsters of...
Nature's Bounty: Part One - A Tale of the Kin
**"I'm not normal, and I've never, never been human."** Garret pushed against the glass. As the door swung inward, a small bell chimed announcing his arrival. He peered into the darkness, expecting to be met with the smell of overpriced burritos....
Wetpelts - Intro
The sound of summer rain was once a pleasure, a time of relaxation. Ryndle could once sit on the eastward porch of his estate, gazing out at the rolling thunderclouds as the distant smell of brine and petrichor drifted through the wood, to where he...