Virtually Real Part 25: Furry Station One
I considered shifting my clothing into a classic film noir detective's outfit, but i doubted either one of my visitors would get the reference. instead i changed to my uniform and sat up. "enter." "tiger, what are you doing now?" kyle asked.
Tales from the BellHunterVerse Ch1
His seemingly over-sized police belt for a mammal of his frame, the buck wore a pair of tight black jeans supported by a clearly unnecessary pair of pale gray suspenders making it appear as though he were trying and failing to ape the long out of style noir
TransPlant
* * * "So she never got to finish it," Fran's best friend had told her. "Halfway through," the jackal had shaken her head. "They wrote the rest based on her notes," her best friend had gone on. "I hate that." "You do?" Fran had tilted her...
Cockroach Motherfuckers
"There's two kinds of work in the world." Fran's roommate was a communist. "First, there's work-that-stays." She was also a writer. "Then, there's work-that-goes-away." The jackal didn't write, herself, but she'd asked about what made her roommate...
Enochian: Book 2, Chapter 19
Homes â€" and the rising taxes on this house meant he couldn't afford to buy a bowl of stew every now and then, much less a new sword he'd been eyeing for the last decade or so â€" sin had done him the favor of bringing half his things to the marquee sur noir
Vagabond (1)
My own chair had fewer magazines, and more books, though their nature was rarely of the academic variety, and mostly focused on fantasy thrillers and cliché-ridden noir.
Enochian: Book 3, Chapter 6
"thanks for showing up so promptly... now, if you wouldn't mind, do you think we could go over that exercise for sending people to the marquee sur noir again?" "okay, whoa, time-out, no need for threats!"
Evokation / Book IV: The Hanged Man / Part 6
She gazed up at him softly, and zerrex sat down beside her with a quiet grunt before he said quietly: "you've told me before that it's possible to move things through the marquee sur noir.
By A Thousand Cuts
"People get them without thinking." Fran and her roommate were watching her pets chasing each other around their living room. "They get them for their kids." "That's the thing!" she concurred. "They think of animals as lesser lifeforms than people for...
Respawn (re-post, correct)
Respawn is a space noir with an ace trans protagonist about mental health, transhumanism, atheism, video games, anarcho-socialism, and polyamory.
Knight of Toad Town 1 - The Unjust Steward
But then along came one particularly odd case that roy only wished he had the authority to title as something cool and noir-ish for the details that spiralled through towards the end of his first year.
Let Them Eat Cake
Fran had made it a habit to always make sure that her pets' treats would be kept in a place where her pets couldn't reach them. It'd been a safety precaution, for their own good. One day, somehow, though, she'd made a mistake and left them somewhere...