A Major Calls
We'd have gone anywhere for Captain ffox. The whole bloody lot of us. Anywhere except...well, I won't repeat what Barrie said once. Very crude, that boy. I was worried at first, when I learned I was being transferred to ffox's platoon. He...
Snoopy Verse the Red Baron
Below my little square of white Upon white fields, white poppies blow. White clouds surround my lonely flight Hanging black-bordered high and low. Somewhere beyond the frame he flies Where the white air meets the white mud Waiting to blaze across...
Loganberry Hits a Hrair
Loganberry sighed and ran his paws through the tuft of fur between his long ears. He was tackling a particularly thorny passage of Old Lapine this morning, and even the plate of chocolate digestives at his elbow wasn't helping. The thought that he...
Bentley's Peace: I
On that first morning of peace, Bentley Pringle ffox woke from a dream of running across No Man's Land to a sunlit bedroom. He was wearing striped pyjamas that smelled of mothballs. A sporting print hung above the bed. He was home. He had seen his...
Teaser: Ping Pong Diplomacy
Tux had never flown first class before. He stretched his white feet straight out in front of him, spread his toes and extended his claws, but he still couldn't touch the back of the seat in front. "You wouldn't think the Commies would have first...
Freshers’ Week Friend
Sitting on the narrow bed, I performed an inventory of my new home: - Four off-white walls, awaiting posters. - One desk. - One chair. - One bookcase. - One washbasin. - Two suitcases. - Three cardboard boxes, two containing books, one containing...
The Tribes of Dog
The Alpha Pair begins the song Calling to the clans along the snow Whale-ivory sinew-strung on whiter pelts. The Old Man Tawny walks from the Dreaming On hard cracked pads; shakes off the red dust Curls his yellow tail, and sits. Two black-backed...
Wolf Break
Eleven o'clock; coffee time. I opened a pack of wolves. Fur white as icing, they surged through the office, staring and sniffing with almond eyes and chocolate noses. Flicking the crisp points of their ears, they crunched across keyboards dunked...
Teaser: Gerbil 07
"Good morning, James!" That meant the Old Man had a mission for me. I sat up and ran a paw through my whiskers. "Morning, Old Man. Gerbil-O-Seven reporting, ready once again to save the world and get the girl. What's the deal?" "I do wish you...
Bentley's Peace: II
Bentley's first thought was to find Grace, but she had already left. Schützer was alone in the kitchen, drying up the tea things. When he saw Bentley's face he put down the tea towel and pulled out a chair for him. "Vhat ist?" Bentley sat at the...
Rodentia
Tuco-tuco, marmot, mara Guinea pig and capybara The paca and the pacarana With all the seeds their cheeks can garner. Bringing fruit and other booty Woodchuck, coypu and agouti. Hopping dusty deserts o'er Go the springhare and jerboa Crossing...
FuturePlex Brings You The World Of Tomorrow
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