Serval and Sheep (Chapter 29)
"Dude, this is super weird." Marcel mumbles. Elmer nods. "Super fucking weird." "Do you think the smell can set her off? Like, sweat smell?" The two rams glance behind them, where a lanky white tigress sits on a bench, enthralled...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 28)
The end of spring break brings a twofold anguish. The obvious first is the return to the academy. Students come back to their cramped dorms, highlighter-drenched notebooks and morning classes. But the very first day post-spring break is always Species...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 27)
he waiter can't help but smirk at the two felines seated across from each other. Serving at such a classy establishment, he often waits upon many nervous couples having their very first date. Being an otter, he considers himself a romantic, and...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 26)
Miraculously enough, spring break did arrive for the students of Noah's Arc Academy on the first week of April. The annual exodus of animals from the school left only a few dozen stragglers still staying at the dorms, including Hafsa herself. With her...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 24)
Last year, when I became student council secretary, I decided to take the new treasurer Brian out to lunch on a Saturday. As we were both sophomores, and new to the council, it seemed like a good opportunity to get to know each other. This was a...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 23)
Desmond loves his horns more than life itself. While he may curse every aspect of his herbivorous existence, he always thanks the Ethereal Forces That Be for being born a Jacob sheep. The sheep, for as long as the animal has existed, is fodder. They...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 22)
Desmond wonders if somehow, his wool has secretly smelled of catnip his whole life. Or maybe, he had been a cattail in his past life. Why else does he attract such complicated felines? He reminisces miserably on these existential doubts while...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 21)
Hafsa is on top of the world. Just a few weeks ago, she had been contemplating dropping out of school, such was the barrage of drama and humiliation her sophomore year had brought her. Yet here she stands now, with every obstacle that had been thrown...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 20)
As a child, my favorite days were Sunday, because that's when my father was home. As a renowned anesthesiologist, he worked six days a week and only came home after I had long since been tucked in, so I never really got to see him. But he would always...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 19)
Desmond is engulfed in a massive group hug two steps into the training room. As soon as the rams found out about his brother's assault, it's been a non-stop barrage of worried texts, calls, video calls, surprise barging-ins his doom room, etcetera....
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 18)
The crowd explodes into applause as the fireworks go off. Animals rise to their feet violently enough to rattle the worn bleachers, whooping and hollering, drunk on the energy that only exists in a pep rally. The whizzing roman candles and fountains...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 17)
The final preparations for the first pep rally of the year involve a rehearsal. Since this marks the beginning of the spring sports season for all sports, every member of every sports team was excused from seventh period and ushered into the...