Toothless Goes Courting: Chapter 1
**Toothless Goes Courting** Chapter 1 The cold woke me. I resisted, clinging to sleep with a paw draped over my eyes, but the stone beneath me was already chilly and I couldn't keep up the pretense for long. With a weary smack of my lips, I...
Toothless Goes Courting: Chapter 2
* * * Toothless Goes Courting Chapter 2 It was early, and the sun was only beginning to chase away the cold that clung to the island colony. It was better inside the nests, where clever human wood-shaping traps the heat of our fires and theirs to...
A World Lost
Ferrikesh splayed his pedipalps across the copper wires and brackets splayed out before him on the workbench. His three arms worked fastidiously to give form to his latest idea, a longer-wave generator. His earlier wave sensor had picked up short waves...
A Snake's Shine
An island lay beyond a forest of trees that reached the clouds. The residents of the canopy and branches called it the Isle of Demons. It was there beyond a cliff and over the coast that one would find themselves on an island inhabited entirely by...
Twin River Mysteries - A Curious Case of Lovers in Limbo - Chapter 1
Twin Rivers was a little old town between its namesakes, Copper River and the Horn Rock. The cats out there were about what you'd expect—felines of all colors and stripes who wanted to live life at their own speed, out of the spotlight. The kind of...
Twin River Mysteries - A Curious Case of Lovers in Limbo - Chapter 2
Pilot had made it her business to know any cats of note in Twin Rivers – but by no means did this involve ever meeting or building a relationship with any of them. She had _heard_ of the Collector, long before their paths had been set together, but...
Badili
Three years later. As the wet and dry seasons cycled and changed the Serengeti, so did time change the cubs of the deserter pride. Zuri grew into a beautiful young lioness, her coat now devoid of the faint spots of her youth, leaving her fur pure...
Chronicles of the Tetrad Chapter 3: Meow Like an Egyptian
"Beware dealing with clans without prior knowledge, as they will always be wary of you at the very least. Each one has their own rules specifically about outsiders; if they do not tell you their own terms after acknowledging your presence, leave...
Chronicles of the Tetrad Chapter 4: A Hasty Fortune Telling
"Environments are scattered at seemingly random by the Terra Formers. You will note a thin, shimmering blue aura separates one between the other. These are World-Barriers that keep each environment self-contained; water, you, and anything...
Twin River Mysteries - A Curious Case of Lovers in Limbo - Chapter 6
"What is _wrong_ with you?" Orchid wailed. She recoiled from the stone, its six sides now trembling with reflections of light from another sky. Midnight's guards unsheathed her claws, but every cat gathered was too occupied by the weird phenomenon to...
Twin River Mysteries - A Curious Case of Lovers in Limbo - Chapter 5
The sun cast a kaleidoscope of shadows from the trees as it moved overhead. Gold and dark swirled along the road as it turned from concrete to gravel. Pilot followed it until she spotted a worn dark patch of earth that ducked underneath a twist of...
Twin River Mysteries - A Curious Case of Lovers in Limbo - Chapter 3
"Saffron." Pilot shook her head. "You're telling me that our missing paramour, the _house cat,_ killed one of your gang?" "Chestnut says he saw it with his own eyes," said the Second. "Shoved him right out into traffic." Pilot shuddered. The...