Chapter 5: Getting Settled
Chapter 5: Getting Settled With help from Chester, Rosemary, and Becca, Flora and Cynthia moved into room 337 of Hollow Oak Hall Thursday afternoon following the morning's seminars. Isabelle disappeared between Flora and Chester's first trip...
Chapter 4: The Vixen in the Northeast Wing
Chapter 4: The Vixen in the Northeast Wing The first time Pete saw the vixen he had just returned from lunch after the Orientation Seminars Thursday morning. He stepped out of the Northeast stairwell of Hollow Oak Hall and almost leapt out of his...
Chapter 3: Fox and Mouse
Chapter 3: Fox and Mouse Isabelle had reappeared by morning, and Flora stealthily slipped out of the room without waking the red vixen after donning a sky blue pleated skirt that ended an inch and a half above her knees and throwing her green...
Chapter 2: The Royal College of Vulpineva
Chapter 2: The Royal College of Vulpineva Isabelle was gone when Flora returned to her room. Flora was grateful for this because she didn't want the red vixen to see she'd been crying. She felt dumb, like a little kit, but she was all alone like...
Chapter 1: Goodbye Willowdale
_Flora: A Tale from Vulpineva_ Heather O. Bunn © Heather O. Bunn 2021 _In memory of all of the animal victims of human violence. May we finally understand that their lives are their own and not for us to take or exploit._ Chapter 1: Goodbye...
Pet Rebellion
Ellie rolled over onto her belly and peered at the glowing red numbers of her alarm clock: 8:54. Had it been a weekday, Ellie would have panicked, late again for her shift at the local newspaper, the Maplesburg Press. Ellie was a...
Chapter 17-nonsense
Jason woke up hungry and thirsty. He rolled out of bed and plunged to the floor with a yowl of surprise. Scrambling to his feet, he looked at the bed in confusion: the mattress was higher above the floor than he was tall. If he stretched up on his...
Hunted-Ellie-perspective
Ellie was out enjoying a sunny Fall day. She'd crouched in a meadow and was enjoying some fresh grass in the shelter of the longer stems. Her ears swiveled toward a scuffing sound and her eyes lazily followed. They popped wide when...
Hunted-Ellie-alt
Jason stalked through the tall grass, listening, breathing the scents around him. His prey was nearby. Silently, he pushed forward, his stealthy movements barely rustling the grass. It could have been mistaken for a light breeze. His...
Lost Kitty
None of the trees looked familiar. Jason kept walking, desperately looking for some landmark, some familiar feature of the forest that would tell him which way home was. He had been playing hide and seek with Fitzie in the forest...
Katya's Hunt-alt
Katya stalked through the bracken. Her sharp, kelly green eyes peered out of the Autumn-tinted leaves that disguised her ginger fur as she eyed the white and brown rabbit munching grass a short distance from the edge of the forest. A...
Katya's Hunt
Katya stalked through the bracken. Her sharp, kelly green eyes peered out of the Autumn-tinted leaves that disguised her ginger fur as she eyed the white and brown rabbit munching grass a short distance from the edge of the forest. A little bit farther...