[Draft] Mundane
Pop. Pop. Crackle. I lay by the glowing hearth, flames dancing in front of me. Sounds of water tap, tap, along the roof and windows. It is so easy to fall asleep these days. The gentle crackling of fire, rhythmic taps of rain on the roof, the...
Loriavva: A Dragoness Matures
Loriavva's birthday was about a week away. The young Dragon's scales had already grown their lustrous sky-blue, heralding her ascent to maturity, and she wasn't so much worried about it as she was frustrated. "Ahh," her father hissed with pride, "my...
The Tale of Five Swing Park
They had the pizza graveyard in their car, yet they found no one to sell them their dog. Monday came, and all they could think about was sandwiches, but sandwiches seldom have a habit of falling out of the sky, so they went home hungry. They still had...
That Gay Goth Dog: Chapter 18: The Battle to be Normal: Part 2
(Devin Townsend Project- Secret Sciences - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy7uQ4evb8g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy7uQ4evb8g)) Back at home for the first time in what felt like years, this oak and blood wood room that I was lucky enough to...
Two Weeks Later - (part 2/2)
The silent sorcerer sat alone at his usual private table in the overcrowded Teloger Tavern. He held his stove pipe hat in hand and fiddled with the ribbon wrapped at the base. He reached into the pocket of his duster, as it hung on the back of his...
A Grand Day Out
What a beautiful day it was! The sun had woken shortly after six o'clock that morning and had now climbed steadily higher in the heavens to illuminate the world with hardly a cloud about to obscure its golden smile. Everywhere it looked it could see...
average day in the life of an obese fox
Sun filtered through the blind, illuminating the air in the small apartment, thick with the smells of greasy cheese and low sodium soy sauce. The clock on the wall said 4:30 but the slow sounding ticking said that was not to be trusted as accurate. A...
Everything Or Nothing capter 7 - Late for dinner
Sala drummed her finely manicured nails on the shiny,black tabel she and Cassandra sat at in the buzzling, full restaurant, waiting for Jorek. Like always. Waiters came in and out of the kitchens dubel swinging doors having big overgrown plates...
A Day in the Life of a Shark
_Bzzt! Bzzt! Bzzt!_ The deliberately irritating, almost mosquito-like alarm blared through the dark, stuffy, and previously-silent room, crashing upon the ears of anyone in its vicinity. Its volume was such that it all but drowned out the vague and...
Maycor
_Jarzyl gets a new responsibility. (3,612 words)_ * * * Atlas curled his tail around and used its tip to press the doorbell. The three-legged fledgling sat down on his haunches, but no more than a few seconds later, the door slid open, revealing...
A Place for the Stranger
"Food?" "Check." "Family?" "Check." "Plates, utensils, napkins?" "Check, check, check." "Appetites?" "HELLS YES!" _"Then dig in!"_ The Lamar family Thanksgiving dinner was underway. Bobby took his cue from the rest of the family...