Questions of the Night (Otherwise Untitled)
~ With the sun's winding fall to the horizon and her luggage being a bulky mass of a week's supplies, Detective Clip had exceptionally short patience for the attendant at the vehicle rental facility. ~ "I just got off of a twelve hour flight, I don't...
Overconfidence of Youth and Flame (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The phoenix turned in her chair and gave the Synth a long stare and a sigh as he entered the tucked away room. ~ "I must've done a fine job today, what with this meeting with tha boss, no?", mused the phoenix. ~ The Synth simply glared as he...
Disagreeable Relations (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The holiday meal-table was a lengthy sprawl of all sorts of entrees and side dishes, surrounded in every place by an otter of the family, with only the exceptions of the lone Synth sitting a head taller than everyone else and the glucose wafer...
Mission Report (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The old rabbit stirred in his bed a bit as the station shuddered. Another heavy cargo ship had docked with too much load, a regular occurrence these days, and easily ignored. However, the soft crackling sound in the room caught the boss' attention....
Paper, Plastic, or Tire Iron. (Otherwise Untitled)
~ Leaning against the sky blue finish of their battered vehicle, the barn owl glanced between the ticking of the pump and the hood with its silent engine beneath. His curiosity was piqued, notions to take a peek at the mechanisms forming as the pump...
Abandoned Mine with Appreciated Gems (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The halls of the long failed and abandoned mining colony groaned in protest of the sudden occupation by an intruder. The rabbit tromped her way patiently along the corridors, checking each door's label plate in turn. She mustered her radio to life...
Damp Sand (Otherwise Untitled)
The ferret's two-way radio crackled with a silence that drowned out the patter of his blood soaking into the hot sand.
Moment in a Truck (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The phoenix found herself abruptly awake by the sound of the teargas canister bouncing off of the truck's windshield. From the same pool of self control that prevented her from igniting the bench seat's upholstery, she merely rolled onto her back to...
Defining Oneself (Otherwise Untitled)
The fox's mother settled her glare somewhere between his blindingly cyan dyed ears and immodestly short skirt as she struggled to find words of helpful admonishment from amongst the giggles she could only just contain.
Carefully Arranged Papers (Otherwise Untitled)
~ Alexander hefted his backpack from the post X-ray conveyor belt to one of the inspector's tables. He tried to keep his glittering red crest feathers in a subdued posture, handing his passport over to the customs official. With the apathetic gaze that...
Jack Braking Prohibited (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The coyote was roused from her nap when the rattling thrum of the engine cut out to be replaced with an irregular thumping of road noise. "Bwuhhuh?", she inquired. ~ To her left, the ferret driver was appropriately rushed but not yet panicked as he...
Cookie of Chances (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The meerkat gazed into the oven, and despaired. The baking pan, now somehow tarnished to a soft blue tint from the heat, bore a dozen objects that she'd hoped would become cookies during their time therein. ~ More than half of them were now crunched...