Strange Deviations (Chapter 4)
## Chapter 4: What Did You Expect? ## Jacob was going for a nice morning walk around the property, his brother was covering him at the gas station so he didn’t have anything to worry about. The middle-aged man liked to take nice strolls and...
Nisse, Julefest, and Hooves- Eighth Day of Christmas
Eighth Day of Christmas: Lieddi I swing my eyelids open and can already feel my heart racing. Today, since Canute can’t fight my father for my hand he’ll be fighting me up and down the cheese barn thrice over. Oh it's so much fun around here,...
Kobold Krafts (on the roof)
_ **KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK** _ "Hbuh, wuh?" Drool connected the pink scales of Yelz's lips to her nearly flat pillow as her head rose, bones popping in protest. _ **BEEP BEEP BEEP** _ For those who work night shift, who burned the...
Kobold Krafts (in the pool)
_Tink tink tink…_ "If I don't move… she won't see me…" It wasn't the first time Yelz had lied to herself; eggrolls were good without sauce, close-toed shoes looked good on clawed paws, green went well with pink, or it definitely wasn't getting...
Kobold Krafts (at the store)
If exhaustion had a manifestation, its avatar would be poor Yelz. The kobold's subspecies wasn't ever meant for nocturnal life, yet here she was hitting the hay at two in the morning and finding half the sunlight gone by the time she awoke. The past...
Kobold Krafts (...)
Three days. Yelz had been whittling away her claws upon a keyboard for three days, locked away in her office at Wild Gregs. Numbers rolled in the kobold's eyes like syrup, seeping past a brain that was slowly turning to mush and pooling around...
A Spare in the Trunk: Part I
The beat-up Chevy sped down the setting sun, past the endless telephone poles and cornfields. The smell of moist earth outside and cigarette smoke inside the car mingled together. The cigarette almost fell out of Jack's mouth as he yawned. Another hour...
Strange Deviations (Chapter 8)
## Chapter 8: Breaking Barriers Peter awoke suddenly, a noise blasted out of the bathroom, someone probably dropped something. He looked around the living room to see Alopex had vanished and the movie was over. You'd think she'd at least have the...
Vipers, Nights, and French Fries (Ch5)
##### Chapter 5 I got up the next morning and jumped out of bed easier than I had in the last two months. Today, I was filled with purpose. My mission was to get I.A. Day off by _any _means necessary. There was no level I would...
A Spare in the Trunk: Sick Day
Jack stepped out of the bathroom with a billowing cloud of steam following him. Another work day, another morning shower. The smell of sports stick gave him pause, he should have smelt breakfast by now. He got his answer to the lack of fresh coffee and...
Sweetheart Deal - Chapter Eighteen - Sweet Lessons
Chapter Eighteen Sweet Lessons _There are more ways to make sugar than drops of water in the ocean. It's a simple fact of biology and chemistry I learned on the job—store and release, not create and destroy. I caught scent many times, yet didn't...
Into The Wildlands: Chapter XXI - Harvest
“Can I actually pull this off?” Erik groaned, holding his head in one hand and a pencil in the other. In front of him, a book full of sketches, pretend technical drawings of parts he needed for the sawmill, measurements from all angles possible, but...