Chapter 13: Difficult Conversations
Chapter 13: Difficult Conversations After breakfast Saturday morning, Flora, Pete, and Cynthia found an open table in the library and quietly worked on their homework together. After a break for a late lunch, they returned to the library to use...
Katya's Hunt
Katya stalked through the bracken. Her sharp, kelly green eyes peered out of the Autumn-tinted leaves that disguised her ginger fur as she eyed the white and brown rabbit munching grass a short distance from the edge of the forest. A little bit farther...
Chapter 15: Campaign
**Chapter 15: Campaign** Flora, Pete, Rosemary, and Becca sat in the waiting area of the student health center. The great horned owl at the front desk turned her head toward them occasionally but didn't disturb their anxious waiting. At last,...
Pet Rebellion
Ellie rolled over onto her belly and peered at the glowing red numbers of her alarm clock: 8:54. Had it been a weekday, Ellie would have panicked, late again for her shift at the local newspaper, the Maplesburg Press. Ellie was a...
Lost Kitty
None of the trees looked familiar. Jason kept walking, desperately looking for some landmark, some familiar feature of the forest that would tell him which way home was. He had been playing hide and seek with Fitzie in the forest...
Farida's First Feline Date
Farida's First Feline Date By Heather O. Bunn Farida nervously bounced her leg as she waited at the Middle Eastern...
Found
Ellie crouched low in the meadow as she picked dandelions, grass, and clover. The white and dark brown splotched rabbit munched some grass as she collected it, her ears, eyes, and nose all constantly alert for predators. She froze as...
Chapter 1: Goodbye Willowdale
_Flora: A Tale from Vulpineva_ Heather O. Bunn © Heather O. Bunn 2021 _In memory of all of the animal victims of human violence. May we finally understand that their lives are their own and not for us to take or exploit._ Chapter 1: Goodbye...
Chapter 17-nonsense
Jason woke up hungry and thirsty. He rolled out of bed and plunged to the floor with a yowl of surprise. Scrambling to his feet, he looked at the bed in confusion: the mattress was higher above the floor than he was tall. If he stretched up on his...
Chapter 11: Fox and Rabbit
Chapter 11: Fox and Rabbit Flora didn't get much sleep that night, tossing and turning with anxiety. After being awoken by the fox three times, Cynthia asked Flora to move her to her own bed for the remainder of the night. Flora started awake at...
Chapter 2: The Royal College of Vulpineva
Chapter 2: The Royal College of Vulpineva Isabelle was gone when Flora returned to her room. Flora was grateful for this because she didn't want the red vixen to see she'd been crying. She felt dumb, like a little kit, but she was all alone like...
Chapter 3: Fox and Mouse
Chapter 3: Fox and Mouse Isabelle had reappeared by morning, and Flora stealthily slipped out of the room without waking the red vixen after donning a sky blue pleated skirt that ended an inch and a half above her knees and throwing her green...