Memorial to a Coyote
The beach in Northern France was so quiet and so serene, a polar opposite of that day decades ago. This was Memorial Day for Nathan Calhoun and for the first time in decades Mr. Calhoun, the elderly coyote, grey in his muzzle, saw the beach which he in...
Gam Saan (The Golden Mountain)
The boat ride by schooner was a long, nauseous, disease-filled trip which saw Sheng Lee lose his meals more times tha nhe cared to admit on the six-month boat ride from the Chinese port town of Shanghai to a city which a few years ago was nothing more...
War Paint
The vixen before the mirror took one last look before her night out on the town. That mirror had always held a special place in her heart- it was the same mirror that her mother had used when she was her age, in heat for the right fox who it turned...
Natural Science- Hyperspace
"So you see class, the entire universe is composed like a gigantic machine made up of interlocking wheels. All the events of this universe are governed by laws of physics- Buddha called these immutable, unchanging laws 'Dharmakaya' and he also believed...
SPQR Chapter 7
No sooner had Martellus Lisenius entered the Senate than a feeling of dread encompassed him. The wolf looked out across the seats and saw other Senators who had just been sworn in (elections were out of the question, one of the new "reforms" the new...
Joyland
"Mom, why do I feel so weak all the time" Daniel said to his mother, a lioness who could not restrain tears as she told her son, who was not long for this world about the congenital leukemia he had. At times, Marisa would blame herself for her boy's...
Dream Operator
And so the circle was complete as Caleb the wolf looked into his cub's golden eyes after his wife's delivery at Virgil Orthodox- he was like this at one point in the past. He was just a cub once, suckling on his mother's teats, becoming bipedal and...
SPQR- Chapter 1
And so the day had finally come for Martellus the Second, the wolf who had more than earned his salt in several provinces abroad to return home to his father and mother to tell of the brave and glorious stories of his legion during their tenure in...
Babalu-Aye
Setting: Santiago, Cuba The night air was thick as the sun had gone down over the island of Cuba, bringing an end to the work day of the famers, who had toiled growing the sugarcane responsible for the creation of Cuban rum. The best rum in the...
Loew's Creation
One anti-Semitic indignity after another had befallen the friends and family of Rebbe Judah Lowe ben-Bezalel- whetehr or not the Prince professed a respect for the city's Jewish minority was irrelevant as private citizens would insult, hurt, rape and...
Rust Belt Tails III: Trial Under Fire
This was the kind job that nobody actually wants, if they can help it. But after months of living at his mother Maria's expense for food and lodging, he needed to reutrn a portion of his living expenses to Maria and that meant, of course, finding a...
Fury in the Pheasant's Wings
For the first time in a long time, clouds covered the Great Plains and Pheasant knew what would come next. For months, a drought had waged war on this beautiful part of the country, wrapping it in a feverish heat and thirst for what seemed like an...