the ceremony
Every young doe and buck loved the autumn festival. But every young doe and every young buck also feared the autumn festival. Once a year, in October, before the snow made travelling difficult, the tribes all came together. It had been like that...
incubation
"... Warning! Evacuate! Hull breach! Emergency power low. Life support critical! Warning! Evacuate!...." Lurien jumped up, sweaty and shaken. Her helmet had hit the instrument panel in the cramped cockpit of the prospector shuttle. There was no...
consequences
Arden had enough, crying, both sad and angry, he kicked a stone into the nearby property, hoping it would destroy something. Maybe it made a dent in a car, or hit a window. He half hoped for the sound of an impact, but there was only rustling of...
Sometimes failure offers the best prize
Teth?ula breathed deeply and clenched his hands into fists. His heart was beating a mile a minute and his body was shaking, his eyes clenched shut. Around him, all was silent. He was alone in a wooden hut, told to get himself ready. He had to calm...
The Black Soul
"'Aight, bro. You up." Lil' Gilly stretched, rubbing the back of his head and staring at himself in the mirror. This was wrong. Fucked up. His mother taught him better than this. Fuck, why did he go along with this? He could feel his hands...
The Wish
"Useless brat!" The hand cleaved across my face, and my cheek stung with his insult and the back of his palm. It took every ounce of my courage, every ounce of my strength not to stumble and fall. The room swayed around me as my temper rose, but it...
Easy Grade
"So when you're all finished up, you'll give me an A on my paper?" "What? Absolutely not." With a pouting frown, the 18 year old university student removed his tongue from the tip of the teacher's length, a hard glint in his eyes. His professor,...
Fur
This is the Diary of Lorraine Small Sao Fei I cringed writing that. What kind of parents name their daughter Lorraine? It's weird. Speaking of weird, whose parents leave a cub in a crate with sickos halfway around the world? Mine, that's who. Ack...
Hellevator
It would have to be shift changeover when the lady came in; but then again Silas expected nothing less. One didn't rise far in the force without a healthy degree of pessimism. He supposed she was comely enough as squirrels go--reddish fur, purse...
Costume Antics
Shel wobbled in place, feeling hot and stuffy. The chubby Irish setter's fur was getting heavy with sweat. "Andy," he groaned, "can we pull apart a sec? It's hard to breathe in this...
Hindr (By Chaon)
The text was bright red and stylistically rendered in the manner of the Goosebumps logo; with ugly pustules that seemed to drip off the pristine white of his smartphone screen. Other than the garish font the splash screen appeared boringly dull next to...
Death Takes a Vacation (By AmethystMythDen)
Earth, being several billion years old, did not care at the goings on of a single man. No matter what the 'evolved' beings that lived on it like so many ants on an moderately sized hill thought, it was there before them, and would be there long after...